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Eric Maugendre<p>From the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> announcement dated yesterday:<br>"Our U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organization continues to serve as both a fundraising entity, and as a resource in sharing its board members’ advice and experience."<br><a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/</span><span class="invisible">evolving-the-team/</span></a></p><p>We could hope for a good next step: the transfer of all the project's intellectual property and assets to the European non-profit entity…</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/MastodonHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/federatedNotDecentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federatedNotDecentralized</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/EuropeanAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanAlternatives</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/restructuring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>restructuring</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/reorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reorg</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/reorganization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reorganization</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/donations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donations</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/fundRaising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fundRaising</span></a></p>
Eric Maugendre<p>From the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> announcement dated yesterday:<br>"Our U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organization continues to serve as both a fundraising entity, and as a resource in sharing its board members’ advice and experience."<br><a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/</span><span class="invisible">evolving-the-team/</span></a></p><p>We can hope for another good next step: the transfer of all the project's intellectual property and assets to the new European entity.</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/MastodonHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/federatedNotDecentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federatedNotDecentralized</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/EuropeanAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanAlternatives</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/restructuring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>restructuring</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/reorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reorg</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/reorganization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reorganization</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/donations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donations</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/fundRaising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fundRaising</span></a></p>
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>📚 Mastodon History</p><p>Back in February 23rd, 2016 — Mastodon first described itself as:</p><p>“Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project.”</p><p>The history of Mastodon is tied to GNU Social.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e/README.md" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/b</span><span class="invisible">lob/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e/README.md</span></a></p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/t</span><span class="invisible">ree/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeSo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediverseHIstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseHIstory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNUSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUSocial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastodonHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonHistory</span></a></p>
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>📚 Mastodon History</p><p>Mastodon's initial sourcec-code (git) commit happened February 20th, 2016.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/9c4856bdb11fc9311ab30a97224cee3dfaec492f" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/c</span><span class="invisible">ommit/9c4856bdb11fc9311ab30a97224cee3dfaec492f</span></a></p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/9c4856bdb11fc9311ab30a97224cee3dfaec492f" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/t</span><span class="invisible">ree/9c4856bdb11fc9311ab30a97224cee3dfaec492f</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeSo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediverseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastodonHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonHistory</span></a></p>
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>📚 Fediverse History</p><p>On October 5th, 2016, Eugen Rochko announces Mastodon on Hacker News:</p><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646083" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1</span><span class="invisible">2646083</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeSo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediverseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastodonHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonHistory</span></a></p>