• @[email protected]
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    52 days ago

    Is the money getting what it wants or is this making sure the money is quieter? I don’t understand.

    Last year, the company formed a U.S.-based non-profit to get more funds and grants with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on the board. At the same time, the organization lost its non-profit status in Germany at the same time.

    While Mastodon relies on donations and sponsorships to operate, Bluesky, its main competitor working on a rival decentralized network, is reportedly raising a new funding round from investors at a $700 million valuation.

    The blog post noted that the new Europe-based non-profit entity will wholly own the Mastodon GmbH for-profit entity. The organization is in the process of finalizing the place where the new entity will be set up.

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      82 days ago

      OpenAI’s events of last year has me just slightly less than impressed at the ability of a non-profit board/org to be able to contain/control the wild efforts of capital when it matters.