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   admin (admin@mastodon.tech)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 23:58:51 JST admin

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   I’ve been running Mastodon for about 1 year & just upgraded my software to Pleroma/Elixir on October 17th because of inherent weaknesses in Ruby on Rails that powers Mastodon (ROR doesn’t scale well on large instances due to high numbers of dependencies, ROR was not built for performance & is headed to obsolescence in the Programming Community).

   Only problem is that the creator of “Mastodon,” Eugen Rochko noticed that Mastodon.tech had switched to Pleroma & he’s private messaged me his displeasure unless I abandon my domain. You can see our public back & forth here: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109177601618496744

   1. My primary reason is to try to maintain consistency for my users & myself who are already known at the Mastodon.tech & using that address.

   2. It’s not right that someone can tell you what software you must run on your domain which I don’t charge users or make money from.

   3. I work with Trademarks in the USA so it was easy to look up that Eugen Rochko was bluffing & doesn’t have a US Trademark on “Mastodon.” He has a German Trademark which carries no weight in the USA (I know this 1st hand because I hold a UK Trademark that doesn’t help me in the USA).

   4. To be infringing I would have had to create a competing software, call it “Mastodon” & be making money from it.

   What are your thoughts?