Active Mastodon users have grown 800% in recent month and is attracting Mozilla and Firefox to set up servers.

Steve Teixeira, chief product officer at Mozilla-owned by an non-profit foundation- “Our intention is to contribute to the healthy and sustainable growth of a federated social space that doesn’t just operate but thrives on its own terms, independent of profit- and control-motivated tech firms,” said….” Getting to the internet we want from the internet we have will be a heavy lift”

2/ “Corporate money is flowing into Mastodon more directly, as well. Pawoo, a large Mastodon instance based in Japan with 800,000 users, was acquired by crypto startup Social Coop, which runs a cryptocurrency-based “web3 social network” called Mask, with $50m of funding behind it. The company already runs two other Mastodon instances, Mastodon.cloud and mstdn.jp.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/21/firefox-and-tumblr-join-rush-to-support-mastodon-social-network

Firefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network

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