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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have recently been using it more to connect with others on a new subject, but now for the first time ever on the internet since early 00's, we are all owners of it ourselves. All the great new stuff was always owned by others and frankly I'm sick of it.

I never even liked twitter. Then I followed #nature and #bloomscrolling on mastodon for a while and my home feed was a feast of beautiful pics. So now there's one use for me for microblogging. Neat! Mastodon does what it says it does and even offers 'default' instances. I'd love for some GO's to help reach that donation goal quicker, so we can all get with the program and ditch corpo social media. -Why doesn't my library host it's own peertube?? #MakeLibrariesGreatAgain

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

we are all owners of it ourselves.

Not unless you run your own instance you aren't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I couldn't find any legalese on mastodon.social that my toots are somehow not my property. While it's true that I no longer have total control over its distribution, that doesn't mean I have somehow relinquished ownership.

You seem quite confident that that is incorrect , with your one line reply. Could you link or explain where you got this information?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could you link or explain where you got this information?

Common sense. The instance admin deletes the instance (or your posts) 'cos the coffee was bad this morning... there goes "your property".
Obviously orders of magnitude better than commercial social media but it's no silver bullet either.
There, 3 lines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Yep, it's still someone else's platform, even if it's open source.