Insanely bizarre, Germany has historically been pro-open source and the EU was just saying that the Fediverse is here to stay.
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit
Submitted 6 months ago by makmarian@kbin.social to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/
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simple@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Daxtron2@startrek.website 6 months ago
That doesn’t change the fact that the US has de facto control over most of the web infrastructure
rettetdemdativ@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Could you provide a source for the second part? I’m genuinely interested
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Germany has historically been pro-open source and the EU was just saying that the Fediverse is here to stay
That’s a matter of politics. The tax authority doesn’t care about the political stance of the German government. They also sometimes just take weird decisions that seem pretty random, but it’s nothing political.
JoYo@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I know they were already in the process of the 501c but that’s really gotta come as a bummer.
They’ll lose a lot of donors in the EU if they can’t keep that non-profit status.
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I thought it was decentralized? Disappointing to learn this.
bilb@lem.monster 6 months ago
It is.
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Why? Bitcoin does not and that is the point. If there is a throat to chock some will chock it or take it over.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 months ago
onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 months ago
Germany doing its utmost best to drive away innovation. Genius.
But why go to the USA? The EU has 27 members and Switzerland is a neighbor…
Anti Commercial-AI license
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t know the answer but they pointed this out further in the press release:
I’d assume that this is for a reason, too. If it were advantageous to run your company out of the EU people would probably do so sometimes.
jmanes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe in the USA it is easier due to our relaxed (almost non-existent) business oversight from the government? Not sure.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Pretty silly for something literally used by the European Union and other European Governments. Am I right in thinking the German Government is one of those?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 months ago
social.bund.de