Ownership of Mastodon will move away from the control of CEO Eugen Rochko, in contrast to the power exerted by other social media CEOs like Meta cofounder Mark Zuckerberg and X owner Elon Musk.

Eugen Rochko, CEO of the decentralized social networking platform Mastodon, is handing over control to a nonprofit organization. In other words, Rochko is voluntarily handing over the reins of the ...

Mastodon is now shifting to a nonprofit model, stepping away from its founder Eugen Rochko’s sole control, and embracing its ...

Decentralized social network organization Mastodon said Monday that it is planning to create a new nonprofit organization in ...

Mastodon announced Monday that it's shifting ... social network away from its previous "ultimate decision-maker," Eugen Rochko. As founder, Rochko initially took the reins to ensure the ...

“Social media should be built on protocols, not platforms,” Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko said in an interview for TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. “And people should be able to choose freely ...

Until now, it has been run by founder and CEO Eugen Rochko, who will soon “hand off the overall Mastodon management” and focus instead on product strategy, “where his original passion lies.” ...

At a time when Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have shown that the whims of one person can upend an entire social network, Mastodon’s CEO and creator, Eugen Rochko, is heading the opposite direction.

Social media service Mastodon and prominent users of BlueSky have put forward measures to prevent them from being taken over by wealthy interests.

Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing fact-checking across its apps in ...

"When founder Eugen Rochko started working on Mastodon, his focus was on creating the code and conditions for the kind of social media he envisioned. The legal setup was a means to an end, a quick ...

For those unaware, Eugen Rochko founded Mastodon in 2016. The developers created it with the main idea of providing users with more control over their online social lives. The platform allows ...