Mastodon US corporation: Social media enterprise now has a US 501c3. They lost non-profit status in Germany for unknown reasons
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/
#socialmedia #nonprofit #fediverse #mastodon #+
@somebitslinks not feeling great about that. Not feeling great about the board members. I kind of feel like Mastodon.social and the organization are being fattened for slaughter by US capitalists, and the usual enshittification will follow. Data harvesting for advertising AI's.
Another tick towards leaving for a better, smaller instance.
Perhaps at @evan's cosocial.ca I can get a Canadian tax receipt?
@somebitslinks interesting, just the day before yesterday I had been talking with @yksflip under what rule Mastodon might have gotten non-profit status in Germany, how they could operate a gGmbH. Free software as is is unfortunately just not recognized as non-profit in German tax laws yet. And I don't know of any other company in Germany with the goal of developing free software which is recognized as non-profit by law.