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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/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 63 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Even having ceded control, they will go down in history as a legend. More positively viewed then the likes of... other social media founders.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Will anyone be better than Tom?

Became everyone's friend, became a millionaire, retired, (so far?) avoided falling off the right wing conspiracy cliff. Kind of just a quiet dude.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Weird man, had no idea that rupert murdock bought MySpace?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Ja der Typ.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Lmaooo. I forgot about Tom. Which shows how good of a tech founder he was. Memorable, but not in the headlines every other day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Goals, for sure. The guy just does whatever he wants at this point. I think he's doing photography now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

I read this as pornography, and was like I can believe that, this is the type of thing super rich bastards do. But then I googled it and realized that I got it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The foil of Notch?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Notch was primed for that shit long before Minecraft took off. He posted early builds to 4chan, and was an active shitposter there.

The money just made him stop paying attention to anything else.