As somebody who is on the board of multiple not for profits…. “Mastodon has known entity on board” is not the hot take you think it is.
It’s self evident people want this place to be better and it is… but building a better place requires developers putting food on the table.
At worst, it’s kind of a condemnation that the community as a whole failed at the financial support side of the project to back up our ideology… Better mutual aid for the developers might have driven a different path.
Complaining about the NFP having capitalists is not praxis… NFPs have rich well known people on them to give confidence to other rich people…… it’s not a conspiracy
The important element is influence. What influence do we have over the project? How can we capture more?
I’ve been in this community enough to see thousands of people say “Let’s fork mastodon and do it right”
Well I will donation match (as best I can in AUD) any co-op driven project that actually kickstarts a community driven fork that everyone obviously wants but never seems to actually start.
This is why I am concerned about the new board. Half of them don’t use mastodon and us probably think of it like centralized systems both in terms of what it is like to use and what the users are like.
I am also concerned about the AI and crypto influence on this board . Those things can only make the Fediverse worse.
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