News Summary

Mastodon, a decentralized social network, has announced its plans to transition into a non-profit organization based in Europe. This move aims to prevent control over the platform by a single individual and to differentiate Mastodon from other social networks like those led by CEOs Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Founder Eugen Rochko will transfer management responsibilities to the new non-profit entity while focusing on product strategy. Mastodon will continue hosting its popular servers, mastodon.social and mastodon.online, which serve 835,000 monthly active users. The organization, previously set up as a non-profit in the U.S., will now establish the new entity in Europe, ensuring appropriate governance and leadership frameworks are in place. This transition follows the trend of decentralizing control within open-source projects, as seen with WordPress community projects.