Post #3310922
2026-06-13 15:55 UTC
@iju@mastodon.social Exactly—that means that, under German law, “Mastodon” does not, in fact, meet the criteria for a nonprofit organization.
It’s only natural that every company would like to be a nonprofit, because that means they’re taxed differently.
A nonprofit company could never have paid out 1,000,000 euros to its employees.
@_elena@mastodon.social
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@iju@mastodon.social 2026-06-13 16:51
@decisaias@fe.disroot.org @_elena@mastodon.social You're moving goal-posts here. You originally said that the company is a "for-profit" and not "non-profit", referring to the structure, hinting on Mastodon GmbH doing PR-work with the "non-profit" talk. When I pointed that it used to be until the status was revoked*, you claimed that this was due to the operating criteria. It's not: its due to Germany removing software projects from eligibility. They couldn't have done anything differently.