In light of the announcement of Mastodon’s US-based 501c3 Non-Profit, and the reveal of that organization’s board members, there has been backlash from members of the Mastodon community. Some people are even saying that this is the last straw, it’s time for a hard fork of the project!

I feel like there’s context missing. What’s the objection to the board of the nonprofit?

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/mastodon-us-nonprofit/

The announcement also establishes an interesting board of directors: Esra’a Al Shafei of Majal.org, Karien Bezuidenhout from The Shuttleworth Foundation, Amir Ghavi of Fried Frank, Felix Hlatky of SOLARYS, and former Twitter cofounder Biz Stone.

There are two links in the article to content that talks about forking, but it’s from people who seem to be arguing about the dev team, not the board of a nonprofit set up to handle contributions.

Yeah, getting projects off the ground is hard work. These aren’t really Mastodon specific problems, it’s just another version of the whole “I have an app idea” meme that coders joke about.