We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉
This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
Thanks! That's awesome.
@r10s @VogueLaGalere @Mastodon @sovtechfund
Or in short: public funding from Germany on the federal level
@jonasgraphie @r10s @Mastodon @sovtechfund Thank you. The name made me thing of another institution from another country whose ethos I have serious concerns about.
German government support is a good thing and hopefully serves as an example for my country, the United States which, regrettably, has sunk to a new low.
@VogueLaGalere @jonasgraphie @r10s @Mastodon @sovtechfund They have a Wikipedia article:
@VogueLaGalere @Mastodon @sovtechfund „The Sovereign Tech Agency is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation and is a subsidiary of SPRIND, the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation.“ first paragraph of the link I send which can be found on the account Mastodon mentions.
It’s funded my German tax payers like me.
Awesome! Congratulations. 😊
This is great news … I’m impressed by Germany’s use of public funds for the common good.
This sort of thing is increasingly unlikely to take place in the United States, where public funds are diverted to line the pockets of the billionaire cabal.
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Automated content detection baked into Mastodon is the end of the fediverse as a privacy-respecting network
Great news on most levels!
But it could also be a curse to get "free money" like this. So be careful not to become dependent on this cash flow to continue and do not accept any strings attached. Stay independent!
A "Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider" is nothing but an external ingestion server that gets notified about every new post. That's what the API is made for.
Trying to introduce a "Automated content detection" based on this is nothing but trying to normalize pinging external server infrastructures outside the Fediverse, filling their post ingestion queues.
And you dare to dub this exploitation "Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider".
The Mastodon instance is the provider here.
It is turned into a Fediverse Post Extradition Provider.
Well done whoever worked to get this funding! 👏👏👏👍
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