Title is: My next chapter with Mastodon
I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
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Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
#12"The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape."
This seems like an extreme view to me. It's not so bad
Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
#13He’s also receiving €1 million as a one-time compensation. Not quite enough to retire on that.
Damn, where is Mastodon getting €1M from?
Also where do you get from that you can't retire with €1M. It seems very feasible as long as you keep a frugal lifestyle.
Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
#14This is the problem with a stressful role, with little compensation. Most people wouldn't want to be in this position.
It sounds like anyone that runs a moderately sized open source project.
More money would solve most of these issues.
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#15I think it's good for the future of Mastodon as a decentralized platform to not depend essentially on any one person. After all, the web itself no longer depends on Tim Berners-Lee. That doesn't diminish their accomplishments, which were never about king-making.
Truthfully, the web never did depend entirely on Tim.
He made neither the browsers nor the servers that people used, and libwww was so full of bugs and memory leaks that it was heavily modified by those who did, if they used it at all.
The W3C was its own thing.
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#17He’s also receiving €1 million as a one-time compensation. Not quite enough to retire on that.
Damn, where is Mastodon getting €1M from? Also where do you get from that you can't retire with €1M. It seems very feasible as long as you keep a frugal lifestyle.
> We deeply appreciate the generosity of Jeff Atwood and the Atwood Family (EUR 2.2M), Biz Stone, AltStore (EUR 260k), GCC (EUR 65k), and Craig Newmark.
> We want to thank the generous individual donors that participated in our fundraising drive. We put individual donations entirely towards Mastodon’s operations (primarily, paying our full-time employees to improve Mastodon), which totalled EUR 337k over the past 12 months (September 2024 - September 2025).
From https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-...
Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
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Yeah he did a lot of harm to the community by expending so much of his effort on segregating communities. I understand what he was going for but I think it was both the wrong tone and the wrong tools, and it crippled the growth of the fediverse
Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
#19He’s also receiving €1 million as a one-time compensation. Not quite enough to retire on that.
Damn, where is Mastodon getting €1M from? Also where do you get from that you can't retire with €1M. It seems very feasible as long as you keep a frugal lifestyle.
Why is retiring mentioned? Most jobs pay zero when you leave so 1M is cool.
Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
#20I think it's good for the future of Mastodon as a decentralized platform to not depend essentially on any one person. After all, the web itself no longer depends on Tim Berners-Lee. That doesn't diminish their accomplishments, which were never about king-making.
It depends what the alternative is. A vacuum is worse for example.