@Gargron 🫶

@Gargron What a selfless act. Thank you!

@Gargron you're doing what's right and yet so rare. Thank you! 🙏🏻

@Gargron thank you for all your hard work.

@Gargron Thank you for all of your work and sacrifice!

@Gargron Keep a large stake of the copyright in your control, to prevent someone deciding it's better to relicense without your consent! Give away a portion if you want that org to do enforcement on your behalf. But they don't need 100%.

@Gargron Thank you for all your hard work. I look forward to the next chapter in your contributions!

@Gargron
Bravo, good for you. Recognizing what your strengths are and where you fit best is extremely hard to do, as is letting go of your work like that.

@Gargron 🏆

@Gargron thank you for all your work. :anarchoheart1:

@Gargron Thank you for your work! ❤️

@Gargron
You are an amazing person. Never change.

@Gargron Thanks for all you have done to make Mastodon happen and your visionary and humble move to keep it alive and kicking.

@Gargron i've talked lots of shit about Masodon's CEO but if you do this, i will stop. This is the correct move. Thank you John Mastodon!

@Gargron

Thank you. Hero.

@Gargron

You are a hero!

👍

@Gargron

Thank you. 💚

@Gargron kudos!

@Gargron Thank you for all you have done, and for being able to let go of control.

@Gargron Thank you! Are you already all set in terms of professional help to handle the legal setup of the new non-profit as well as the tax implications in Germany for you personally? Or does it help to recommend people we know to have previous experience on similar non-profit matters?

#MastodonGGmbH #FediMeta

@Gargron thank you for creating Mastodon and for securing its future. I wish you and your family health and Joy.

@Gargron this must be certainly something hard to do.

Speaking (obviously) for myself, and as an user of your software, I support and applaud your decision, this is the right thing to do.

@Gargron Thank you so much for everything you've done ♥️

@Gargron
Thanks for the dedication and effort

@Gargron Just make sure your effort doesn't go to waste by placing it in the hands of an organization that becomes parasitic with its management squatting on your hard work. Organizations like ARRL used to serve their members but now just collect membership fees. Don't depend on being a BDFL either. Set terms in the charter of how the Mastodon trademarks may be used.

@Gargron I am proud to be part of Mastodon!

@Gargron Brave decision, and I approve wholeheartedly.

@Gargron all the best for your upcoming journey! The fediverse wouldn‘t be what it is now, without you and your work on mastodon! Thanks a lot!

@Gargron you're one of the good guys! After being off social media for awhile, I found Mastodon and you built something kinder and better.

@Gargron TY from the bottom of my heart. I had already left Twitter months before and did not know what I was going to do because I left Facebook after the CA debacle. I have been in emotional bliss since joining Mastodon. Had I known about it I would’ve been here sooner.

@Gargron any explicit protections in place to prevent the non-profit from being captured by corporate influence as we've seen in several other F/LOSS nonprofits? Ie, could Threads make some big donations and then later threaten to pull that funding if certain changes aren't made?

In theory the non-profit rather than BDFL sounds nice, but in practice they seem pretty vulnerable to that sort of thing...

@Gargron

@Gargron thank you 🙏🏽

@Gargron Thank you for your work. Hope to see more of your photography and hope that you have a lot less stress in the future.