His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don’t use Mastadon cause I don’t care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

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    Even having ceded control, they will go down in history as a legend. More positively viewed then the likes of… other social media founders.

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      Will anyone be better than Tom?

      Became everyone’s friend, became a millionaire, retired, (so far?) avoided falling off the right wing conspiracy cliff. Kind of just a quiet dude.

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        (so far?) avoided falling off the right wing conspiracy cliff

        People’s views typically tend to move slowly but what’s the current progressive position tends to move much faster, so if he’s young enough he’ll probably eventually fall off the progressive treadmill.

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        Lmaooo. I forgot about Tom. Which shows how good of a tech founder he was. Memorable, but not in the headlines every other day.

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        Goals, for sure. The guy just does whatever he wants at this point. I think he’s doing photography now?

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          I read this as pornography, and was like I can believe that, this is the type of thing super rich bastards do. But then I googled it and realized that I got it wrong.

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          Notch was primed for that shit long before Minecraft took off. He posted early builds to 4chan, and was an active shitposter there.

          The money just made him stop paying attention to anything else.