I think this is a good thing. Either they are a non-profit in Germany or in the U.S., but their mission stays the same.
People like to make a big fucking deal out of nothing. The new board of directors includes Biz Stone, of Twitter-fame. Just because he’s on the board doesn’t mean that the open source, FEDERATED, project is going to got to shit.
I think people just like to complain. The good thing about the Fediverse is exactly that… federation. You’re NOT stuck on one instance or even one flavor of service to stay in touch with people.
If Mastodon does go to shit, guess what? Check out the other Fediverse projects. Hell, start a WordPress blog and connect it to the fediverse.
I get why people are nervous, but is it necessary? Maybe? I don’t see it though.
@seth
I think it was a very wise move considering the sudden change in tax status in Germany. And Biz Stone is a smart move - loads of experience with social media growing pains and let’s not forget - it wasn’t him that ruined Twitter!
But you will always get people who complain - I like to complain about them.
@seth
It wasn’t perfect under Jack and Biz but even that was so much better than now! I popped in to check if I had any DMs today and had an alert that I needed to provide my Date of Birth if I wanted to continue using it. Had that account for 17 years - is that not proof enough? Ignored it for now. I normally just choose the oldest possible date which is what I may do.
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