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Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The code is AGPL. They can't do open core.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

TIL GNU Affero General Public License is a flavor that closes loopholes that were used to extend open software without actually open sourcing your contributions.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Matrix Synapse is AGPL, and it is very much open-core these days, see Synapse Pro.

This is IMHO the main risk, at some point someone might say, why not give our hosting an small advantage over others, and it is all downhill from there.