Post ARArW00MN7aJF6HErw by lewriley@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #ARArVzT2N0vhZkgcvg by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2022-12-28T19:13:25Z
       
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       #Twitter rival #Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-rival-mastodon-rejects-funding-to-preserve-nonprofit-status/
       
 (DIR) Post #ARArW00MN7aJF6HErw by lewriley@mas.to
       2022-12-28T19:36:01Z
       
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       @lauren The article refers to Mastodon as a "site" founded by Eugen Rochko and implies that it could be purchased. I'm trying to come up with a more accurate framing, but it's way out of my lane, so forgive the finger painting... Mastodon is an open-source project written and maintained by Eugen. VC's are offering to fund a for-profit company that might  charge for services around the open-source tools of the Fediverse kind of like Red Hat or Canonical. Am I close? (And Rochko says no, anyway.)
       
 (DIR) Post #ARArW0VCWSFqmkhrwO by maria@thelife.boats
       2022-12-28T21:21:22Z
       
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       @lewriley @lauren These issues track closely with the history of #Linux #gnu the #freesoftware movement and the efforts of Richard Stallman and others to protect #freedom of #informationI wrote about this at the #newyorker some years backhttps://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty
       
 (DIR) Post #ARArW11SaW3iOnndDs by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2022-12-28T21:24:04Z
       
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       @maria @lewriley However, worth keeping in mind how taking these issues to extremes can have unanticipated negative consequences as the world changes.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARArW1Rh0z2hiA4a6y by maria@thelife.boats
       2022-12-28T21:25:50Z
       
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       @lauren @lewriley v. true, and Stallman's history is instructive on this point, HOWEVERin the end the only person paranoid enough, after all, was Stallman
       
 (DIR) Post #ARvYe6nal2SWu9oz0C by lxo@gnusocial.net
       2023-01-22T16:38:31Z
       
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       and yet, not paranoid enough :-(we're all being pushed towards extremes with very negative consequences, and though most people seem to be too distracted to mind the trap they're being led into, I'm happy we have some resistance, and also to be part of it