If you're new here, and considering whether this space could become a social home for you:

Many of us have been here for a few years, since well before Threads, BlueSky, Spoutible, Post, Hive, Pebble, Cohost, Blurble, Blarble and Blorble.

We've made it through waves of user migrations, claims of imminent demise, and tech bros telling us we're doing it all wrong.

Years later, we're still here. Ad-free. Non-profit. Open source. Millions strong.

Stay a while. You might just like it. :)

@eloquence So it can't be sold to, for instance, to a crazed nazi that trashes 15 years of networking and friendships?

@ncw413

Not really!

- Mastodon, the org: legally a nonprofit. Difficult to take over, but if someone did, it wouldn't matter, because:

- Mastodon, the software: irreversibly open source, so anyone else can take it and run with it. Some people have already done so (there are Mastodon variants maintained by other folks, and also completely different software that interoperates)

- Mastodon.social the server: just one of thousands of servers in the fediverse :)

It's pretty billionaire-proof!

@eloquence Exactly! That is my line in the sand.
@eloquence This may be the tagline of the century: “it’s billionaire proof!”