The people should own the town square
blog.joinmastodon.org
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control.
  • mutant_zz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    This is a great move. Governance is extremely important for bigger OSS projects, and the “benevolent dictator” model has its limits.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    194·
    2 months ago

    Does this mean they’ll fix all the things that Eugene refused to fix? Bullish on Eugene leaving mastodon

        • andypiper@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          Search exists. I’m not sure downvotes make sense in the context of a microblogging app, but YMMV. There’s a lot of things to work on, for sure.

          • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
            26·
            2 months ago

            No, I’m not saying he depriortized it. The problem is he won’t implement it.

            By search I mean I should be able to search for a keyword or URL on all instances. There is no support for this. And, again, the issue is not technical. Its Eugene blocking it because he personally does not want the feature

            • andypiper@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              11·
              2 months ago

              won’t implement it.

              “not sure downvotes make sense” -> it might not be a good fit for what the app is -> so maybe it would not make sense to implement.

              I should be able to search for a keyword or URL on all instances

              We’re working on this. It’s part of Fediscovery. Optional opt-in discovery across instances, if a user wants their content to be discoverable across instances.

                • andypiper@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  I don’t know, I was not involved if that was said at some time, but now, we have search, so I don’t know what to tell you.

              • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
                18·
                2 months ago

                Doesn’t matter what the devs want. The users requested it, the devs should implement it. Instead Eugene just said “no”

                • delticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  4·
                  2 months ago

                  This has to be one of the funniest takes I’ve ever seen, esp considering the nature of the project and the devs who work on it.

                • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  That’s a strange take… But even if that logic follows, it’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that’s what ALL users want, and Eugene is the sole opposition. You and I may want global search, but lots of Mastodon users actively loathe the idea.

                  Personally I think it’d be a better platform for it, but I get why there are folks who don’t like the idea. I also wish they’d implement quoting people, but again, I understand why some folks don’t like that idea. Downvotes don’t really make sense on microblogging to me.

            • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
              5·
              2 months ago

              Search on Mastodon is annoyingly restrictive, but you’re never getting “full search across all instances”. Remote search just isn’t a thing.

              Even fucking Google is local.

            • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
              5·
              2 months ago

              search for a keyword or URL on all instances.

              1. Want search on all instances
              2. Code that up with the one site requesting search results from another; what, as an oob cancelmoose but a search?
              3. Oh crap. We smurfed ourselves
              4. Code removal of DoS by search amplification
              5. Go to 1
  • atro_city@fedia.io
    121·
    2 months ago

    The existing US-based non-profit entity, the 501©(3), will continue to function as a fundraising hub.

    Wait, is the money transferred to the US then back to the EU? And will the US-based non-profit still continue to exist or will it be replaced by a truly European one?

    • andypiper@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      The 501(c)(3) is a fundraising entity, and will continue to exist. There will be a new independent European non-profit that will “own” (for the want of a better word) the other entities. Legal structures and things are not my forte (IANAL), that’s my understanding of what is happening in so far as I’m involved in the discussions and what I’m able to tell you.

  • Olap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 months ago

    No mention of the name Mastodon and copyrights which I seem to recall is one of the bigger complaints

    • andypiper@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      These are part of the assets that will be transferred from the GmbH to the non-profit.

      • Olap@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Given the concern, it would be good to be explicit in the blog post. What other assets does it genuinely need? The code is open source, people are free to host instances