Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point

As the niche, decentralized social networking platform rises in popularity, it faces rising costs, culture shifts—and potential legal risks.

wired.com/story/mastodon-legal

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It seems the laws were set up with big centralized for-profit systems in mind. Compliance might be too costly (both time & money) for volunteers running big Mastodon instances.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Maybe keeping instances small? Donations like Patreon? A non-profit foundation to help operators get in compliance? Big instances reorganizing as consumer cooperatives?

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