Eugen Rochko@aenea Angel investing is not the same thing as venture capital. Venture capital firms are a specific thing, and Biz is not part of that thing. Myself and other board members also disagree with Amir about AI. But he cares about Mastodon and he brings a lot of irreplaceable experience in law.
Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]
Kevin Karhan 
@mike @Gargron @aenea I'd also love to read the reasoning why the "non-profit" Status for #Mastodon was canceled and what steps - if any - followed to appeal that decision.
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/112347099183733280
- After all the financial authorities in Germany don't just nilly-willy instate or revoke such legal classification, since they may be liable for wrongful denial or revocations...
Furthermore I wounder why it wasn't incorporated as a registered #cooperative [eG] or registered #nonprofit #foundation [eV] instead?
Maybe it's because a cooperative would've required external #auditing and like the nonprofit foundation would've required both more stakeholders, transparency and democratic structures and bylaws?
I mean, that's #NotLegalAdvice and #NotTaxAdvice as well as #NotFinancialAdvice but it still does beg the questions of "how?" and espechally "why?" and it rubs me personally on that wrong part labeled "#sus"...
Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])
@[email protected] natürlich ist dem nicht so. @[email protected] hätte hier durchaus die Entscheidung veröffentlichen und Rechtsmittel einlegen können... Ich glaub' eher dass es ganz pragmatische Gründe gibt, *warum* entsprechende #Transparenz nicht erfolgte... https://mstdn.social/@NaMi/112344588848974021