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Mastodon.world and Lemmy.world July 2023 blog post (blog.mastodon.world)

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An overdue blog post about the finances and other news from the .world

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

mastodon.social dominates for one simple reason. The Mastodon gGmbH app now defaults to mastodon.social sign ups.

Selecting instances was confusing the shit out of people, so they relented and simplified the signup process.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What is gGmbH?

The gGmbH is a non-profit company with limited liability under German law. In German this is gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung – gGmbH for short. Here 'non-profit' (gemeinnützig) means that the purpose of the company is to benefit the common good.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Neat! I was wondering.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That's unfortunate.

Instead of requiring an insurance selection or defaulting to one specific instance, perhaps they could have a handful of moderate/large instances that the app randomly selects between when a user signs up. That would spread out the signups from people who don't understand the instances.