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Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit (blog.joinmastodon.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was decentralized? Disappointing to learn this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It is.

The people in charge of maintaining Mastodon in particular though need to establish some kind of legal entity and that needs legal recognition somewhere.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago

Why? Bitcoin does not and that is the point. If there is a throat to chock some will chock it or take it over.