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Ehh good for them. But I'm sure anyone who's spent time working in a non-profit can attest, it's a pretty quick path to becoming bloated with admin and immobili

Ehh good for them. But I'm sure anyone who's spent time working in a non-profit can attest, it's a pretty quick path to becoming bloated with admin and immobilized by politics. They'll inevitably bow to sponsor pressure or end up broke and irrelevant. See W3C et. al.

ta988 3y ago
Mozilla where one CEO salary could pay 10 devs.
- askonomm 3y ago
  At 6.8 mil $ per year salary (2022), could hire ~130 developers from Europe. Probably more when looking at Eastern Europe.
deadlydose 3y ago
I was thinking Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy as soon as I saw the title.
riffic 3y ago
> a pretty quick path to becoming bloated with admin and immobilized by politics. cool, then someone can fork and launch their own Masto alternative or some other AP compatible software can grab mindshare. I don't see this as an issue for the ActivityPub ecosystem (and I personally love the Masto project, but diversity in the AP ecosystem just drives everyone to be better.)
- cbeach 3y ago
  In other sectors of OSS I 100% agree with your point. But for a social network that lives or dies by the network effect, the outlook isn’t good for a Mastodon that gets forked.
  - riffic 3y ago
    the Mastodon network isn't really Mastodon, but the wider ActivityPub protocol ecosystem.
renchap 3y ago
We have been a non-profit since Mastodon gGmbH has been founded and our biggest issue is our lack of funding to hire more people full-time, not politics or admin overhead. We do not expect this to change anytime soon.