Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @Gargron as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the German non-profit, am a co-founder of the US 501c3 non-profit, and I have contributed to most of the fundraising success, which allowed us to expand the team.
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Brave man @mellifluousbox !
Don’t forget, millions of users —> 100.000 assholes.
Never let them get you down, we’re grateful for your work!
Good luck in the new role Felix! Onwards and upwards with the Fediverse!
@mellifluousbox Good luck! And thanks, @Gargron !
@mellifluousbox Congratulations 👏
Welcome to the new role 😊
@mellifluousbox @Gargron best wishes to you🙏❤️
@mellifluousbox Huge congratulations and warm wishes Felix. It is inspiring for you to say we have the opportunity to develop and grow something completely different, built around community, trust and care - I agree 100%. I wish you, @haubles and @renchap every success in this - and we are all thankful to @Gargron for making this, and now very bravely handing it over. We can make change happen in the world - let’s do it!
@mellifluousbox excited to be working with you and @Gargron and the whole team!
@mellifluousbox congratulations Felix! I am looking forward to (continue!) collaborating with you, the entire mastodon team, and with all the amazing people and projects on the broader open social web so we will make a meaningful impact in the world, as it needs it!
@mellifluousbox @Gargron congratulations to you both! Looking forward to a bright future for Mastodon! I hope you keep the great Ruby on Rails stack and don't have plans to replace it with something terrifying like Python and Django 😜
@mellifluousbox congratulations on becoming the new website boy
@mellifluousbox @gargron Congrats! One question and one begging on my knees, first the wuestion: What will be Gargons role now? The begging/bragging: Can you please stop amassing users on mastodon.social?
@mellifluousbox @gargron @haubles Thank you, highly appreciated!
@Gargron all the very best - thank you for everything you've built and nurtured in getting Mastodon this far and for inspiring me to join this messy network 😃
It takes real courage and care to know when it’s time to hand over the reins, but it's clear you've built a great team.
@mellifluousbox I’m so happy to see you stepping into this role🎉 You've done so much for Mastodon and the Fediverse, looking forward to hearing more about community ownership, a bold goal!
@mellifluousbox Congratulations, Mastodon is very lucky to have you, and I look forward to this next chapter!
Congrats, Felix! Your commitment to privacy and ethical sustainability shines through. It’s heartening to see a continuation of leadership grounded in care for community wellbeing and a refusal of extractive models. On a very auspicious day for digital sovereignty, I wish you, @haubles and @renchap steady hands and shared vision as you guide Mastodon into its next mission-driven chapter.
Herzlichen Gratulation lieber Felix. Danke für deine bisherige Arbeit und viel Erfolg für alles was kommt ✨
I’m humbled to be given this opportunity and want to tell you a bit more about myself and how I think about the future of Mastodon and the Fediverse. I have a business and finance background. I have worked for technology companies my whole career but have become increasingly tired of the extractive venture capital model of financing them, which only works for the rare outliers and seemingly never leads to the best product humans deserve.
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Mastodon and the Fediverse matter to me because they present a truly viable alternative to this model, by showing its users no advertisement, respecting users’ privacy, focussing on keeping users safe, and allowing them to connect to the Fediverse and beyond rather than putting them into a digital prison to extract as much metadata about them to please advertisers.
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