Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures

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• WinGirl99@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  and yet i still dont know how to use mastodon

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• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Respect. He built something bigger than him and then knew that it was time to transition.

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• mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  But will they continue to moderate content by German leftist standards?

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• mudkip@lemdro.id ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why

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  • dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Read the article!?

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I also recommend reading Eugen Rochko’s own post about it, as Andy Piper linked to as well.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Articles are incentivized to elaborate beyond what is even remotely necessary, link back to no one but themselves themselves, repeatedly, and to serve ads and extract personal information for sale while they’re doing it.

      So you’ll have to excuse some of us looking for the tl;dr

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  • andypiper@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    read blog.joinmastodon.org/…/my-next-chapter-with-mast… and blog.joinmastodon.org/…/the-future-is-ours-to-bui…

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    • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thank you for sharing

      Mastodon is bigger than me, and though the technology we develop on is itself decentralized—with heaps of alternative fediverse projects demonstrating that participation in this ecosystem is possible without our involvement—it benefits our community to ensure that the project itself which so many people have come to love and depend on remains true to its values. There are too many examples of founder egos sabotaging thriving communities, and while I’d like to think myself an exception, I understand why people would prefer better guardrails.

      That’s nice of him.

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I love and hate how Eugen starts this whole project, leads it into being something truly unique and wonderful that directly challenges some of the most evil and wealthy people on the planet, sets up institutional guardrails to make sure it will not be corrupted by any one individual gone mad with power, gives away his position after 10 years once he’s sure the organization is in good hands, and then concludes in reflection that he does not “have the right personality” for running a project like this.

      I hope it has not been to hard for him, and that he’ll look back at it all as a positive experience in spite of the negative interactions. I don’t think any sane person has a personality that is “right” for the kind of abuse public figures receive on the internet. But from the perspective of Mastodon and the Fediverse, it seems pretty clear that he was exactly the right type of personality for the job—including by stepping down when the time felt right.

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That first post is very good. I really appreciate the way he’s handled the first 10 years, and I hope he has fun doing whatever he does next.

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