Tim Berners-Lee wanted the world wide web to spur global collaboration. Tech platforms have, instead, turned it into a data harvesting platform while users have become products.

It's the one Marty McFly used in the 1985 hit movie Back to the Future. Do you know where it is?

En håndfuld insidere vurderer, at den kontroversielle Peter Thiels Palantir bliver omdrejningspunktet for PET's kommende masseprofilering af den danske befolkning.

I de seneste år har vi hørt om, hvordan privatejede sociale medier bliver brugt til at underminere demokratier i flere lande og påvirker hele befolkni

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close the world is to being inhabitable for humanity. Scientists just set the new time for 2025.

<p>At a time when Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have shown that the whims of one person can upend an entire social network, Mastodon’s CEO and creator, Eugen Rochko, is heading the opposite direction. In a <a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/"><ins>blog post</ins></a> published today, the Mastodon team announced its intention to let a new nonprofit organization take over the company. In other words, Rochko is voluntarily handing over the reins to the service he founded almost a decade ago.</p> <p>The company took some actions towards forming a US-based non-profit itself <a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/"><ins>a year ago</ins></a>, and that entity will continue to exist as a &quot;fundraising hub.&quot; However, the company as a whole will continue to headquarter its operations overseas. &quot;We are taking the time to select the appropriate jurisdiction and structure in Europe,&quot; the company wrote, &quot;Then we will determine which other (subsidiary) legal structures are needed to support operations and sustainability.&quot; Mastodon says the restructuring will take place within the next six months.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>Rochko has made his stance against Musk clear. He told Musk to “<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/01/23/nightcap-mastodon-ceo-twitter-elon-musk-clip-orig-js.cnn"><ins>get off the internet</ins></a>” two years ago. He has also <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/mastodon-ceo-calls-metas-moderation-changes-deeply-troubling-warns-users-cross-posting-from-threads/"><ins>called</ins></a> the recent <a href="https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-is-ditching-third-party-fact-checkers-on-facebook-instagram-142330246.html"><ins>Meta moderation changes</ins></a> “deeply troubling.” While Mastodon has not been as obvious a player in terms of raw user numbers as, say, Threads or Bluesky in the post-X restructuring of social media, Mastodon might still find the most moral path forward.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/mastodon-will-soon-be-owned-by-a-nonprofit-entity-170009789.html?src=rss

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