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Looks like Mastodon gGmbH’s latest moves are adored by folks who work at surveillance capitalists like Medium and Google.

Good job, Mastodon gGmbH
 you’re doing amazing, sweetie!

#mastodon #bizStone #twitter #mastodonGGMBH #BigTech #SiliconValley https://mastodon.social/@dimillian/112381366452162899

Thomas Ricouard (@dimillian@mastodon.social)

I missed that, this is an amazing new and a great board! https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/29/twitter-co-founder-biz-stone-joins-mastodons-new-u-s-non-profits-board/?guccounter=1
Mastodon
#Twitter #mastodon #BigTech #SiliconValley #mastodonggmbh #bizstone
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Accept purpose.
Accept purpose.
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I'm thinking of moving.

beige.party calls me but I am thinking of selfhosting.

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@harriettmb I have no idea. We haven’t talked since I started advising him to limit the size of mastodon.social. And, at this point, I have no desire to either. He’s chosen his path.

On the other hand, the fediverse is much more than Mastodon gGmbH and its new American not-for-profit. Hopefully, the rest will resist Silicon Valley better.

@HarriettMB.
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@scatty_hannah @harriettmb It’s not just Germany. We’ve had to pay more tax than startups because we’re a not for profit when we were in the UK. I think it’s better now in Ireland but still, no advantages. It’s a topsy-turvy world.
@Hannah @HarriettMB.
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Hannah
Hannah
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@harriettmb the other thing I read from this is that Germany, once again, stifles development of open European alternatives to Silicon Valley type capitalist ecosystems because of its stupid non-profit tax laws.

Same as most attempts at regulating big tech are so ignorant that they rather nuke out the small competition, while big tech is able to throw money at it and be happy to get even more dominance.

@HarriettMB.
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1ll173r47
1ll173r47
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I’m hoping someday we will be able to self-host a mastodon instance on our phones. That would really be decentralization.
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@1ll173r47 Mastodon isn’t designed for that. It uses a Big Tech stack. But you will be able to do that with Small Web places.

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/


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Fifi Lamoura
Fifi Lamoura
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Biz Stone sounds like a cartoon capitalist cartoon villain. Is he related to Roger Stone?
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