@j2bryson @alasaarela @drdelle Well there are already both companies, nonprofits and cooperative associations running Mastodon instances. What's missing, exactly?
I think lowering the cost of participation (through federation) and increasing the sense of actual human involvement (more admins/mods/user participation) is overall a good thing - I don't think that the current monopolist social media model was ever truly sustainable in the long run. It was always exploitative. >