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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] 1 points 1 day 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.