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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don't use Mastadon cause I don't care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

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[–] billiam0202 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bluesky is still running on VC cash. We haven't seen how they plan on monetizing it yet, but if anything that is where their major fuckup will happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

We haven’t seen how they plan on monetizing it yet

Enshittification once they have enough users, that's usually how these things go. I swear we don't learn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All of these applications (yes, also Lemmy and Mastodon) are feed for the AI machine. That's where the money is.

And ads probably.