MastodonHey everyone, we have some pretty big news to share. You might remember that we announced a big restructuring for the Mastodon team earlier this year. Today marks an important milestone in this transition.
Our Founder, @Gargron is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog.
We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here. We’re thrilled he’s staying on in an advisory capacity.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon
We’re also looking ahead to what comes next. In another blog post published today, we introduced Mastodon’s new leadership team. Our Executive Director is @mellifluousbox (formerly, CFO of Mastodon gGmbH), who has already represented Mastodon on international stages.
We also shared an organisational update, and a fundraising update, in that blog post.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-build-together/
This important milestone also marks the beginning of a new era of community governance and collaborative decision-making for Mastodon. Now more than ever, we need to work together to build safe and resilient social spaces. We must build information networks that are resistant to billionaire control and surveillance. It will take all of us working together to do that.
So please consider joining our mission; we have a lot of work to do.
Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲@Mastodon Oh, so no more decision making on exclusionary Discord channels?
Canoel K.
BadgardenerAs someone who's been around long enough to see empires rise and fall, the fact that you're posting from a Mastodon social account whilst talking about new eras of collaboration and personal safety is setting off *all* my alarms.
Lillian Violet@Mastodon What does this community governance look like? Is it purely "input" and is your "executive" pulling the strings or is the community the one that makes ultimate decisions on the direction the app is moderated and created? Is there a reformation of the values you want to create within the management of development you want to announce or is the direct control of the main contributors without listening to external feedback going to continue? There is whole articles written about criticism of your internal structures, and this addresses exactly 0 of them, now I hope that is because this announcement is sudden and unprepared but I won't hold my breath on that matter.
Apan
Cuteroll, autistic transgender otter@Mastodon @mellifluousbox hello and welcome mr john mastodon
Paul Chambers🚧@Mastodon I will donate to Mastodon development but I won't donate funds that are mingled in to run Mastodon.social.
Is there an option where donors can donate exclusively to the development side and those funds be used only for development. I've heard others offer the same sentiment.
Felix Hlatky@paul Thanks for your commitment! Let me look into what we can do. It should work with so-called "restricted funds", which are then earmarked for R&D and cannot be touched for DevOps/moderation of m.s.
Laura Manach 
@Mastodon @mellifluousbox welp i'm here if needed. cheers
informapirata ⁂ 
Good morning, mastodontes!
@Mastodon @mellifluousbox
Can you tell me how I can suggest a #Mastodon app to the joinmastodon website?
Specifically, the #Raccoon app also works with Mastodon 🙏
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livefast.eattrash.raccoonforfriendica
Markus Redeker@informapirata @Mastodon @mellifluousbox If you don't find something else, you can try it with hello@joinmastodon.org (https://joinmastodon.org/de/about#contact).
