Mastodon MigrationDec 28, 2022

#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

Show threadMastodon MigrationDec 28, 2022

Link in body of the text (not the box below) may take you to a free (not paywalled) version of the article. On one browser it failed, then tried it on another login and it worked, so perhaps that would work for you. Also, it worked from an incognito window.

Thanks to Cody Bromley @codybrom and MarkG @markgrieveson in the comments below who point out that the article is also available here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-rival-mastodon-rejects-funding-to-preserve-nonprofit-status/

Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status

Open source microblogging site has seen surge of interest since Musk took over Twitter.

Ars Technica
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Seems integrity is newsworthy these days...

The Guardian: Mastodon founder says investors lining up since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover >>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/28/mastodon-founder-elon-musk-twitter-takeover

“Mastodon will not turn into everything you hate about Twitter,” he said. “The fact that it can be sold to a controversial billionaire, the fact that it can be shut down, go bankrupt and so on. It’s the difference in paradigms [between the platforms].”

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Mastodon founder says investors lining up since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

Eugen Rochko has ‘offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars’ from Silicon Valley private equity firms

The Guardian
Dec 29, 2022 at 1:09amWeb
Show threadJesú Estrada (they/them/elle)Dec 29, 2022
@mastodonmigration yeah yeah!