Why’d Sony Interactive take them over? If anything it’d be the Sony group, which is japanese.

Bluesky most likely, I don’t see mastodon happening unless there is a major change in how the network addresses moderation and defederation.

Yup, that’s when I lost the remaining hope I had for the project.

Yeah fuck them.

Don’t forget the disproportionate control individual mods have over the network due to the shared defederation lists. I was on a general purpose instance which found itself defederated from a large part of the network because a mastodon.art admin had disagreement with a mod on the one I was on.

The firefox browser could exist without quite a lot Mozilla does. A large chunk of its cash isn’t spent on the browser.