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Did someone say new tech nonprofit? Let's dig in!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit
As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity in the United States aimed at facilitating our efforts, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S.Mastodon Blog
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MF Dume
in reply to MF Dume • • •The first two board members are basic, inoffensive ones and then we get to Amir Ghavi and, boom!, right off a cliff.
Now, Mastodon's press release mentions Avi headed up some stuff over here, advised on some cutting-edge tech and IP stuff over there, you know, just stuff, no biggie.
Then I click through the link provided in his bio, and good gracious:
"Amir Ghavi leads our core technology practices as the co-head of the Technology Transactions Practice and multidisciplinary Digital Assets and Blockchain Practice, while also serving as the firm’s foremost Artificial Intelligence ("AI") counsel.
Amir has advised clients on cutting edge technology and intellectual property matters for more than a decade and has translated this experience into a profound understanding of the development and adoption of disruptive technologies, particularly AI.
Amir is a leading legal authority in the sector, advising participants in the AI ecosystem — including several foundation model developers — on product development and counseling, data procurement,
... pokaż więcejThe first two board members are basic, inoffensive ones and then we get to Amir Ghavi and, boom!, right off a cliff.
Now, Mastodon's press release mentions Avi headed up some stuff over here, advised on some cutting-edge tech and IP stuff over there, you know, just stuff, no biggie.
Then I click through the link provided in his bio, and good gracious:
"Amir Ghavi leads our core technology practices as the co-head of the Technology Transactions Practice and multidisciplinary Digital Assets and Blockchain Practice, while also serving as the firm’s foremost Artificial Intelligence ("AI") counsel.
Amir has advised clients on cutting edge technology and intellectual property matters for more than a decade and has translated this experience into a profound understanding of the development and adoption of disruptive technologies, particularly AI.
Amir is a leading legal authority in the sector, advising participants in the AI ecosystem — including several foundation model developers — on product development and counseling, data procurement, AI governance and strategy, regulatory matters, government affairs, M&A and IP matters. Significantly, Amir has advised and continues to represent defendant AI model developers in several of the major AI litigations currently filed.
Amir advises disruptive technologies for a diverse range of clients - from multinational corporations, private equity sponsors, and venture capital firms to select high-growth technology-driven companies, helping the latter shape their core technology offerings and manage the cycle to commercialization and scale."
https://www.friedfrank.com/our-people/amir-ghavi
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MF Dume
in reply to MF Dume • • •The fact that he's a blockchain bro already tells me that he'll be questionable at best on environmental issues.
Then we get into all his AI shenanigans and it really makes me wonder why Mastodon needs an AI grifter like this on the Board, if they're really going to be the happy, shiny nonprofit they claim.
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Sampath Pāṇini ®
in reply to MF Dume • • •Good thing #Mastodon is not the #Fediverse.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Sampath Pāṇini ® • • •@paninid it's still an entity with gigantic influence on the broader fedi.
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Sampath Pāṇini ®
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@rysiek
I expect the Mastodon Bros to play with fire, get burned, and enshittify their baby.
I also expect power users to smell it coming and forge paths out of it.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Sampath Pāṇini ® • • •@paninid the latter is already happening.
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Sampath Pāṇini ®
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Bargearse
in reply to MF Dume • • •The good thing is we're on ActicityPub.
I am hoping something like Goto Social gets a little more support and I can move across full time, I had hopes for fire fish but.... I'm already spending way more time on Lemmy.
immibis
in reply to MF Dume • • •Mastodon
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.socialMF Dume
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in reply to MF Dume • • •JimmyChezPants
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I haven't figured out yet whether the targets of nazis have an easier time here than on the silos or not - I hear a lot from some people that it isn't, but then, I would be hearing that from some people no matter what, wouldn't I?
But I *am* pretty sure, based on this simple fact, that the nazis have a more difficult time here than on the other ones.
No sysop here, other than @Gargron that is, is incentivized to get as many users as possible. The opposite is true. Key.
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Only a certain kind of brain thrives on that, honestly - I firmly believe that most trolls who are not getting paid, are basically playing the same slot machine as any TikTok user, just a very custom one focused on upsetting libs as the jackpot.
There definitely are the nazis who stand up the servers and whatnot too, but with Twitter, the corp did that boring stuff while they just manipulated algos.
Their easy days are over now, even if *we* can't relax yet.
immibis
in reply to MF Dume • • •Mastodon
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.socialJimmyChezPants
in reply to immibis • • •@immibis
I had similar confusion about wordpress.org and wordpress.com for years.
It's always gonna be a problem, but anyone who joins dot social is *probably* gonna get exposed to enough salty fedizen rhetoric that they'll sort it out eventually, like I did about wordpress.
Parade du Grotesque 💀
in reply to MF Dume • • •Sad, but inescapable conclusion.
Time to ditch Mastodon ASAP and find another platform.
Site Reliability Enby🏳️⚧️🏁🔦📈🐺👗
in reply to Parade du Grotesque 💀 • • •JimmyChezPants
in reply to Site Reliability Enby🏳️⚧️🏁🔦📈🐺👗 • • •@SiteRelEnby @ParadeGrotesque
That's the great bit about it, it's no longer an all-or-nothing, stay-or-lose-everything proposition.
We have established a zone where interoperability is the focus; if we leave Mastodon entirely, we lose that progress. This is not like "staying on Twitter to keep up the fight," this is good fertile soil for future development, even if a couple of VC scum are trying to get a few fingers in the ground too.
They'll get no algos here and lose interest.
JimmyChezPants
in reply to JimmyChezPants • • •@SiteRelEnby @ParadeGrotesque
I'm a bit paranoid now that I came off as a white dude telling everyone not to worry. Not singing kumbaya over here.
I actually think that the future will involve a number of different federated networks with different foci, many of them not talking to each other at all, or possibly through some sort of prophylactic instance, where this is benefit to some contact (infosec, for instance), that applies hard whitelist-only type filters.
8Petros [Atlas Unshrugged]_
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