cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14961640
We’re excited to announce the Board of Directors governing this newly formed entity:
Esra’a Al Shafei is a human rights advocate and founder of Majal.org
Karien Bezuidenhout is an advocate for openness and supporter of social entrepreneurs.
Amir Ghavi leads Fried Frank’s core technology practices as the co-head of the Technology Transactions Practice
Felix Hlatky has been the Chief Financial Officer of Mastodon since 2020.
Biz Stone is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Twitter, one of the world’s leading social media platforms.
Welp, don’t like that. US nonprofit is a huge misnomer. For the most part they’re used by the wealthy to create businesses that don’t need to pay taxes.
They are also used by non profit organisations so…
All I’m saying is generally when those in big tech establish a non profit, it’s for the wrong reasons, or it eventually becomes the wrong reasons. Look at open AI. They had a non profit and and profit side. The non profit side essentially controlled with the for profit side did, then when they ousted the CEO for doing things that were clearly in the interest of profit over the betterment of society, the CEO had set it up so that without him the open AI ship began to sink. Then those on the board that were against him were ousted from the board. It was a hostile takeover.
I’m not saying that’s going to happen with mastadon, I’m just saying they have some key players that are investors and/or long time workers in big tech and it puts a bad taste in my mouth.
Mastodon never wanted to topple the social media landscape they just wanted to get on the top of it.
Amir Ghavi is an AI and crypto ghoul and Biz Stone literally cofounded Twitter, this new seems to be about what I’ve come to expect from mastodon team by this point
