Mastodon CEO? Isn't Mastodon federated? I thought the benefit of being federated was having no CEO?

Now, if you are like me, you hear the words “open source” and “decentralized” and then the word “CEO” and think, wait, why does the decentralized open standard have a CEO? The whole point is that no single person or company is in charge, right? Well, welcome to the wild world of open-source governance. It’s a riot, my friends. You’re going to hear me and Eugen say the phrase “benevolent dictator for life” in dead seriousness because that’s how a lot of these projects are run.

https://www.theverge.com/23658648/mastodon-ceo-twitter-interview-elon-musk-twitter#:~:text=Eugen%20Rochko%20is%20the%20CEO%20of%20Mastodon,%E2%80%94%20the%20open-source%20decentralized%20competitor%20to%20Twitter.

Read more for the context at the link.