I’d say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI.
Nobody was using their instance from what I heard. So a bit of a wasted effort.
What sort of money are they throwing at AI? I only know about the sidebar and that’s basically just a tab to a website of your choosing. Couldn’t have been expensive.
Because Mastodon needs a reliable instance with a catchy domain name. Maybe even the slightest bit of advertising.
Someone reputable could make a real Twitter competitor for about $2m a year these days.
I’d say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI. Genius.
Nobody was using their instance from what I heard. So a bit of a wasted effort.
What sort of money are they throwing at AI? I only know about the sidebar and that’s basically just a tab to a website of your choosing. Couldn’t have been expensive.
They never allowed people to use it. There was a wait-list. It never opened afaik outside of Mozilla people.
mastodon.world? mastodon.social?
Which don’t exactly have the name recognition of The New York Times.
Would you worry Google would have too much influence?
I would worry that Google will simply discontinue the product abruptly. Google is unreliable with product longevity.
It’s rather see NYTimes get into it. Even if they time allow outside signups on their instance.