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I haven't looked into Mastodon. How is it funded? Advertising? Private investments? Otherwise? On Hive we know witnesses are incentivized to keep producing blocks and secure the chain through inflation. This is transparent.
Crowdfunded
And who controls the funds?
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Think of Mastodon servers as a ton of little Twitters haha.
Yes, users can talk to people on other servers.
But they face the exact same censorship issues that they face on Twitter itself because server owners have the same power that Twitter Inc has to ban/remove your account.
Hive.
Fixes.
This.
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The fact they control the funds that were raised says all about who has control of these servers.