From the #Mastodon announcement dated yesterday:
"Our U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organization continues to serve as both a fundraising entity, and as a resource in sharing its board members’ advice and experience."
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/
We could hope for a good next step: the transfer of all the project's intellectual property and assets to the European non-profit entity…
#MastodonHistory #federatedNotDecentralized #EuropeanAlternatives #restructuring #reorg #reorganization #donations #fundRaising
“The fundamental reason for the
study of #group psychology is that no one can give us democracy, we must
learn #democracy. To be a democrat is not to decide on a certain form of human #association, it is to learn how to live with other men.”
Mary P. #Follett, 1919
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#neighbourhoods #community #organizing #peopleNotUsers #meta #federatedNotDecentralized #FediverseCollectives #decisionMaking 🧐#sharedGovernance 🏠#powerSharing #cooperation 🧩#orgGovernance 🧱#orgDesign 🧩#communityGovernance
Appendix The list of the instances of Mastodon is a scrapped from the Mastodon website on november 14, 2022, via this notebook. We keep only the instances whose number of users is at least 10. Now, let's get location informations with ipapi. The requests look like this: `http://ip-api.com/json/m.rthome.me`. You can test them in your web browser. Here, in order for all the requests to pass, they must be launched every 1000 milliseconds. So it takes time. That's why the result has been saved in an attached fi
#federatedNotDecentralized 🧩#communityGovernance #socialControl #contentModeration #instances #timeLines #usability #defederating #socialNorms #publicOpinion ☕#saferAlternatives
Eric Maugendre
Jeroen Habets