Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web
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I think that sounds like a really good idea, if you want to get corporate- and government hosted instances on board. What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can't write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees. If Mastodon offers these types of contracts, it would help the adoption rate.
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I honestly would've preferred a referral program where you could get a pre-configured vps at your chosen vps provider (where the end user can choose from vps providers such as Hetzner, Glesys and so on), and that the referrer (mastodon, friendica, piefed, lemmy or mbin) gets a small cut out of every monthly payment.
Though I'm not sure how to make that an intriguing deal for the vps providers.Centralizing the decentralized web at one provider sounds counter productive.
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I hope they don't go open core.
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I remember when I wanted Mozilla to do that, since they had the organizational might, the money, and it fit perfectly with their mission when they created mozilla.social. On the one hand, it seems slightly less ideal to have the same organization that develops mastodon also providing hosting for it. On the other hand, they probably have a better chance of doing it well.
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I wish government organisations would host their own Mastodon servers. Get off Twitter.
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I hope they don't go open core.
The code is AGPL. They can't do open core.
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I think that sounds like a really good idea, if you want to get corporate- and government hosted instances on board. What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can't write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees. If Mastodon offers these types of contracts, it would help the adoption rate.
What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can’t write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees.
They can. There are plenty of companies offering Mastodon hosting.
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I wish government organisations would host their own Mastodon servers. Get off Twitter.
In some countries, corporations and government are basically the same entity. Free countries distinguish between them in a meaningful sense.
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The code is AGPL. They can't do open core.
TIL GNU Affero General Public License it a flavor that closes loopholes that were used to extend open software without actually open sourcing your contributions.
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In some countries, corporations and government are basically the same entity. Free countries distinguish between them in a meaningful sense.
Even then, would rather my government contract out Mastodon hosting to a company based here in the UK than to use the American Hosted and moderated Elon tool.
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It's a good approach, it's exactly how NodeBB operates as well.
We have a FOSS software and we sell managed services for those who don't have the technical know-how.
Win-win.
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Aww heck yeah @astro@c3d2.social coming through ftw!
I think I can use this API too, to backfill when a new hashtag is followed on my end :)
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@john_fisherman @swf so, I hope you find other ways to make the Fediverse better.
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@john_fisherman @swf We are not the only organization working to build and improve the Fediverse. I don't agree with all of them on everything, but that's how coalitions work. We collaborate on the parts we agree on.
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@john_fisherman finally, that's not the entire point of the @swf . You can check our feed for information about the work we do. You can disagree about wanting to get LinkedIn or Snap connected to the Fediverse, and still support our other work.
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@mauvehed@defcon.social very cool! Love the hacker ethos coming through in the blog post.
I wonder if fedibuzz (by @astro@c3d2.social) has something you could consume. Then you don't have to go instance by instance. It is a relay however.
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@john_fisherman on the Fediverse, you have control over who you connect to and who you don't. Everyone should have the ability to block Hacker News or LinkedIn if they want.
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@john_fisherman there are a lot of good reasons to connect existing social networks to the Fediverse.
Mostly, so people on the Fediverse can stay connected to people that matter to them -- friends, family, colleagues, neighbors. Connecting to people is what social networks are for.
Second, so people on those networks can more easily move onto platforms they control themselves. We are getting better and better tools for those moves.
