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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by jandrese »

naIak wrote: post #13
layer8 wrote: post #4

He’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.

Depends how old you are how much you already have saved. If you still have a mortgage payment it's probably not going to make it. If he fully owns a farm out in the woods somewhere where you don't have to buy health insurance it might be possible. Taxes are probably the biggest worry, inflation the next.

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Post by polynomial »

xupybd wrote: post #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

It also glosses over or ignores the fact that Discord is low key crushing it, and is hardly a "capitalist hellscape"

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Post by layer8 »

naIak wrote: post #13
layer8 wrote: post #4

He’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.

It’s not impossible to retire on that (assuming the stock market keeps going indefinitely), but you probably wouldn’t unless forced to, at his age. With €2-3M it would be less of a question.

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Post by velcrovan »

hinkley wrote: post #15
lapcat wrote: post #8

I 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.

Also kind of like John Gruber and Markdown.pl

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Post by periodjet »

> The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape.

It’s telling that people like this who use “capitalism” as a pejorative never have any compelling alternative to offer beyond “let experts in the state micromanage everyone and everything”.

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Post by lapcat »

jshen wrote: post #20
lapcat wrote: post #8

I 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.

There's no power vacuum. There's now a Mastodon nonprofit organization with an executive director and leadership team.

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Post by jonathaneunice »

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job." -- Bill Murray
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