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Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The blog post noted that the new Europe-based nonprofit entity will wholly own the Mastodon GmbH for-profit entity. The organization is in the process of finalizing the place where the new entity will be set up.

could this be cause for concern down the line? i mean this as a genuine question. i don’t really know how these things work. my understanding is some weird non-profit and profit mixture is what led to problems at openAI. but that said, i also know that the people at the company make a difference, and sam altman is very likely much worse than the mastodon CEO. anyways, it would be nice to know more about this relationship between the profit and non profit side of things.

[–] hcbxzz@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Iirc, Mozilla has a similar structure and it causes some problems with donations