@rolle Yeah. mastodon.social might die or be shut down. And joinmastodon.org might die or be shut down.

But Mastodon is a federation of independent servers, built on a protocol. And the software that runs it is open-source, so even if the "official" development team stops working on that code, someone else will take it over, perhaps rename/rebrand it, and it will live on.

Mastodon has evolved far beyond the control of the person who originally envisioned it.

But that's one of the things about open-source that most corporately- and capitalist-minded people can't wrap their heads around. :)