Is mastodon a DAO, are there any dev teams working on it that follow a governance process?
@socrates1024 I don't believe so. The individual operators don't work together updating code or defining rules or processes. It's more of a friendly free-fo-all.
@socrates1024 the software is governed by a German non profit, the standard set it uses (ActivityPub) is a W3C governed web standard. The software itself is open source so has many contributors. There are also forks (glitch-soc, HomeTown).
@socrates1024 here is the github 'DAO' with 770 contributors:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
GitHub - mastodon/mastodon: Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - mastodon/mastodon

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