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This is a monumental day for the future of the social web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/ and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: https://freeourfeeds.com/ These two moves together put the most credible players on solid ground for years to come — and set up the open platforms to enable lots of innovation just when it's needed most.
@anildash I'm a little cynical about announcements of fundraising *targets* but still, the important take-away is that a lot of people have noticed that social networking as a commercial product really doesn’t have an interesting future, it’s time to build out alternatives.
@timbray yeah, I’m skeptical of that too. But I think planting a flag in the ground on the larger goals is interesting and useful, and the larger sense of there being many projects pushing these parallel goals forward is great.
@luis_in_brief @anildash @timbray I like that there is a number, €5 million, because this lack of scope is a constant challenge when discussing the fediverse.
I think it's also starting to put down what those of us on this thread understand about this model. Making this part of the commons only works if we have funding and governance contributions.
If Mastodon can't get that funding level, it won't be able to support a "commons". Getting people to understand that funding is still a fight.