#MastodonNews Dec 28, 2022

Seems not everybody is willing to sell out to evil billionaires.

Financial Times: Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to protect non-profit status >>>
https://t.co/TXNmtIPV3O

Twitter rival Mastodon has rejected more than five investment offers from Silicon Valley firms... The platform’s non-profit status was “untouchable”... Mastodon will not turn into everything you hate about Twitter.

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Client Challenge

@mastodonmigration fuck yes!!! This is why I’m with #mastodon punk fucking rock!!!

@graciegato @mastodonmigration The people who run those firms seem to have more money than sense anyway. I mean, just take the open source software and start your own instance if you like Mastodon so much.

Sure, I don't see much of a revenue model doing that, but since when has that ever fazed Silicon Valley VCs?