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Here's hoping the Mastodon "non profit" is somewhat better set up than Matt's "WordPress Foundation" and that Mastodon is not now completely under control of one person (with two sock puppets) that also owns a company competing in the same space.

I just looked up the board of the Mastodon non-profit, I'm not super comfortable with Biz Stone being listed there, but at least the board is not just Jack Dorcey or Jay Graber and two names with zero googleable internet presence in the last decade...



What do you dislike about Biz Stone being on the board? He’s a mensch with a highly relevant credential by all accounts I’ve heard.


Nothing "real", just a knee-jerk reaction to him being a Twitter cofounder (and patent holder).


You might be surprised to learn more about him.

Hard to remember the idealism Twitter was founded with now, but I suspect Biz saw where Twitter was headed long, long ago and didn’t want to be party to it.

He’s used his status to support awesome projects since then.


Jay Graber Mike Masnick (techdirt) Jeromie Miller (XMPP) Investor seat


Hi Paul


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