Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.

His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don’t use Mastadon cause I don’t care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

  • @VincenteEnglish
    5•1 month ago

    Yes, it’s not a full web3 app, but I like that these apps are heading in the right direction.

    However it’s better than Twitter/Instagram. I can control my feed!

    • @[email protected]English
      12•1 month ago

      Twitter also looked great until it didn’t, it even comes from the same guy.

      While at this moment BlueSky looks good, we will end up the same way sooner or later. Muskov et. al. figured out how to monetize social media. Now Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and others are tools to manufacture opinion. And certain opinions are worth a lot to certain people.

      • @rekaEnglish
        1•1 month ago

        it even comes from the same guy

        The seed money came from Twitter, allocated by Jack Dorsey and he had a position on the board that he didn’t really make use of. He literally left because he is against centralised moderation and didn’t have enough influence to prevent bsky implementing it.

    • ᴅᴜᴋᴇᴛʜᴏʀɪᴏɴEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      Until they build “The Algorithm” to “help you” find what you they want you to see or not.

      • @rekaEnglish
        1•1 month ago

        Feeds offer algorithm transparency and you can use alternative frontends. ATProto can’t suddenly be turned to private and disable third party access, it is intrinsically public.

        • ᴅᴜᴋᴇᴛʜᴏʀɪᴏɴEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          It doesn’t have to be app-based, simply account based. Then the third party app doesn’t mean anything.