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Why the Fediverse is not (yet) Billionaire-Proof, or: The 51% Attack for the Fediverse (fungiverse.wordpress.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 10 months ago (4 children)

But while that’s a very lucky thing to have, the issue is that we depend on the owner of Mastodon to not sell the company to a billionaire.

We don't depend on that. Buying Mastodon would get them the branding but not Mastodon itself. It's all GPL/AGPL and would be forked immediately if sold. The buyer would have no control over it.

Oracle may have owned OpenOffice but it didn't matter. Everyone uses LibreOffice now. Same shit.

[–] sarmale 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Dont agree here, the https://joinmastodon.org/ already redirects users to make an account there. Even if its FOSS the company that represents it is very powerful. Think of android, technically FOSS but Google can control preety much all of its developments. No forks would be even be considered

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] sarmale 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah sorry, meant https://joinmastodon.org instead of .social

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