Notices by your purple friend (maffsie@queer.party)

in light of the news today of pawoo.net being acquired by the “web3” ghouls behind mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud i would like to share fhe following:

“acquisition” of mastodon instances is, in my opinion, antithetical to the foundational basis of decentralised and federated social networks. Far from normal acquisitions where there’s at least “intellectual property” and proprietary software, acquiring an instance running on open-source software can only mean that the users themselves were sold.