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MadeInDex 📰🌎 (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 01:52:26 JST MadeInDex 📰🌎
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The #Mastodon gGmbH team is very small, & there are 3900+ open issues on the #Mastodon #Github.
An instance hosting service is probably not a priority at the moment 🤷

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  Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 01:52:28 JST Ben Werdmuller
  
  Real question: why doesn’t the official Mastodon org offer professional instance hosting with IFTAS support?
  
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  MadeInDex 📰🌎 (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 02:02:54 JST MadeInDex 📰🌎
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  @ben They seem to prefer a controlled growth approach, but they are slowly growing: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/
  😀 :mastodon:
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    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. donations.
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  Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 02:02:55 JST Ben Werdmuller
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  @madeindex Yeah, I just figured it could pay the salaries of a larger team that could help with core development.
  
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  Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f. (me_the_fl00f@cybre.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 02:08:36 JST Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f.
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  @madeindex@mastodon.social @ben@werd.social Did they found the lost g in gGmbH again ? I mean if they don´t know where the ´g´ goes how they should offer something professional.
  
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  Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f. (me_the_fl00f@cybre.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 02:14:21 JST Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f.
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  @madeindex@mastodon.social We’ve always been worried that developing Free and Open Source Software would not be recognized as a charitable cause by the German tax system, so we were glad when the tax office originally approved our non-profit status in 2021. But now we have received a notice from the same tax office that our non-profit status has been withdrawn. This came with no advance warning or explanation. Earlier this year we went through a successful tax audit, which in fact resulted in some favourable adjustments as we’ve been paying too much tax. Our tax advisor immediately submitted an appeal to the decision, but so far, we have no new information.@ben@werd.social
  
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  Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f. (me_the_fl00f@cybre.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 02:34:14 JST Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f.
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  @madeindex@mastodon.social The thing is that, the g means gemeinnützig / for charity. This came with no advance warning or explanation. Earlier this year we went through a successful tax audit, which in fact resulted in some favourable adjustments as we’ve been paying too much tax.A tax audit aka a balance sheet has absolutely nothing todo with the requirements to be a for charity organisation. If the CEO and lead developer has no idea about that things, ... I would not order a „professional“ service there.
  
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  MadeInDex 📰🌎 (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 02:40:20 JST MadeInDex 📰🌎
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  @me_the_fl00f 😜
  One of the US board members might have some connections:
  "Biz Stone is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Twitter..." 😅
  
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  Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f. (me_the_fl00f@cybre.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 02:40:23 JST Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f.
  
  @madeindex@mastodon.social :floof_mug: 2025 the year where Meta bought Mastodon.
  
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  Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f. (me_the_fl00f@cybre.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 02:49:00 JST Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f.
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  @madeindex@mastodon.social I mean seriously, what is the reason to run away from the EU and found a company in the US somewhere. Eugen gave a talk in the past with Flipboard about the future of the social web. It is grow and money. Mastodon is dead. Look what other developers did with Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey and its forks in months what Mastodon did not get done since 2016 and they have not 30K per month as donations.
  
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  Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f. (me_the_fl00f@cybre.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 02:56:35 JST Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f.
  
  @madeindex@mastodon.social We still use Firefish (which is EOL or so) a fork of Misskey and have not decided where we migrate, to Sharkey or back to Misskey.
  
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  MadeInDex 📰🌎 (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 03:09:17 JST MadeInDex 📰🌎
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  Thanks for sharing 😢
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  Scotsbear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐻 (uraael@kitty.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 03:09:19 JST Scotsbear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐻
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  It's shutting down at the end of the year:
  
  https://info.firefish.dev/notes/9xsukr38m3komd63
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    Firefish (@firefish)
    
    **Announcement: Firefish will enter maintenance mode** For those who have been supporting Firefish and me, I can’t thank you enough. But today, I have to make an announcement of my very difficult decision: As of today’s release, Firefish will enter maintenance mode and reach end-of-support at the end of the year. The main reasons for this are as follows. In February, Kainoa suddenly transferred the ownership of Firefish to me. This transition came without prior notice, which took me aback. I still wish Kainoa had consulted with me in advance. At that time, some people were already saying that “Firefish is coming back”, making it challenging to address the situation. Also, since there were several hundred active Firefish servers at that point, I could not suddenly discontinue the project, so I took over the project unwillingly. Over the past seven months, I have been maintaining Firefish alone. All other former maintainers have left, leaving me solely responsible for managing issues, reviewing merge requests, testing, and releasing new versions. This situation has had a significant impact on my personal life. Frankly speaking, there are numerous bugs and questionable logic in the current Firefish codebase. While I attempted to fix them, balancing this work with my personal life made it clear that it would take ages, and I’ve started thinking that I can’t manage this project in the long run. Additionally, vulnerabilities have been reported approximately once a month. Addressing vulnerabilities, communicating privately with reporters, and testing fixes have proven overwhelming and unsustainable. Moreover, a certain percentage of users have made insulting comments, which have severely affected my mental well-being and made me fearful of opening social media apps. I will do my best to refund the donations made to Firefish via OpenCollective, but that’s not guaranteed. `firefish.dev` and `info.firefish.dev` will remain operational until the end of February 2025, after which they will return a 410 Gone status. Server admins may downgrade Firefish to version `20240206`/`1.0.5-rc` and migrate to another *key variant, or may fork Firefish to maintain. Downgrade instructions: https://firefish.dev/firefish/firefish/-/blob/downgrade/docs/downgrade.md Thanks, naskya

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