this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
314 points (99.4% liked)

Fediverse

28389 readers
260 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Germany doing its utmost best to drive away innovation. Genius.

But why go to the USA? The EU has 27 members and Switzerland is a neighbor...

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

I don't know the answer but they pointed this out further in the press release:

However, it’s also important for us that Mastodon is one of the few, if not the only social media platform that operates out of the EU, and we would like to keep it that way.

I'd assume that this is for a reason, too. If it were advantageous to run your company out of the EU people would probably do so sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe in the USA it is easier due to our relaxed (almost non-existent) business oversight from the government? Not sure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Also it's a bigger market of lawyers, so probably easier and cheaper to get high quality legal help against bullshit like this.