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Eugen Rochko
@Gargron@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

Mastodon Blog

My next chapter with Mastodon

Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
Toni :mastodon:
@coloco@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

. @Gargron por mi te puedes ir lejos y no volver-
#Mastodon no es mas que otra red de las redes del fediverso que desaparecerá y surgiran de nuevas al lado de las que ya hay, mastodon se metió en el fediverse, siendo una calcomania de Twitter y wsin #GNUsocial nunca hubiera sido nada, sin el #fediverse y ahora parece ser segun ustedes que mastodon hizó al fediverse y NO-

#fediverse >> https://fediverse.party/
Mastodon solo es un pedacito del fediverse-

No se dice eso en las migraciones

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Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

p.s. This seems like a good moment to thank @Gargron

Obviously I disagreed with his recent stance on server onboarding, but that isn't an attack on his overall achievements.

For me Eugen's best moment was in 2022 when he was asked to sell out by multiple VC companies but he said no:

"Rochko told the Financial Times he had received offers from more than five US-based investors (which he turned down)"

https://www.ft.com/content/de808736-2e05-4c3b-a53c-55b170ae9efd

He passed the test that others (including Bluesky) have failed.

Toni :mastodon:
@coloco@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@FediTips @Gargron cobro 60.000 euros o mas de alguien que no recuerdo quien es ahora, una compañia tecnologica que decia apoyar el proyecto, (no creo que esa empresa lo hiciera sin animo de lucro) y él acepto, ahora ya la pasta es muy grande y se ha arrodillado al capital...todos tenemos un precio...dicen.
#Mastodon fue despues de #GNUsocial y otras redes del #fediverse, sin #GNUsocial no sería nadie y encima se la cargo casi despues de poner activityPub y dejar a GNusocial en bolas casi

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

"That's the irony of what Blaine did when he created WebFinger. It was supposed to support multiple! It wasn't supposed to just be this is your fediverse address, it was supposed to be, here's how you find all the different account of information about me, and different things."

@rabble, 2025

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/

So ... WF is meant to facilitate something like Libravatar, where all roads lead back to a canonical profile? Hmm ...

#identity#PortableIdentity#WebFinger

Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#FediverseHistogram

On October 2, 2013, GNU social developer MMN-o (Mikael Nordfeldth) published a blog piece announcing that they'd rolled out a change to their WebFinger implementation, adding backwards-compatible support for the RFC7033 version;

"Plus of course the former RFC6415 (Web Host Metadata), which StatusNet supports (but only XRD format)."

https://web.archive.org/web/20160722114258/https://blog.mmn-o.se/2013/10/02/gnu-social-now-supports-webfinger-rfc7033/

For those who don't know, masrodon.social was created to federate with #GnuSocial servers.

#WebFinger#StatusNet

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