We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund great news!

[spdrnl@sigmoid.social]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund The Sovereign Tech Agency is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation.

[lokjo@mapstodon.space]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund

Awesome! Congratulations.

[seb@social.tchncs.de]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund this is really great!

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund

[leavex@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund awesome!

[randywalters@sunny.garden]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund

This is great news … I’m impressed by Germany’s use of public funds for the common good.

This sort of thing is increasingly unlikely to take place in the United States, where public funds are diverted to line the pockets of the billionaire cabal.

[jozeldenrust@social.sdfeu.org]

@VogueLaGalere
German government.

[luap42@chaos.social]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund Congrats! 🤩

[tehstu@hachyderm.io]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund Oh wow, the scope of this work is fantastic. Huge thanks to everyone involved working on putting this together.

[harryfk@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund Amazing, so happy to see this!

[marshray@infosec.exchange]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund great so you can add “copy hyperlink” support back to the iOS client then?

[castrillo@mastodon.online]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund congra and thx you Mastodon Team

[quietradiooperator1@mastodon.quebec]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund

Superb

[suddigare@mastodon.nu]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund

Great news on most levels!

But it could also be a curse to get "free money" like this. So be careful not to become dependent on this cash flow to continue and do not accept any strings attached. Stay independent!

[penguinrebellion@tldr.nettime.org]

@Mastodon

A "Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider" is nothing but an external ingestion server that gets notified about every new post. That's what the API is made for.

Trying to introduce a "Automated content detection" based on this is nothing but trying to normalize pinging external server infrastructures outside the Fediverse, filling their post ingestion queues.

And you dare to dub this exploitation "Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider".

The Mastodon instance is the provider here.

It is turned into a Fediverse Post Extradition Provider.

@sovtechfund

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund Congrats!

[nitrml@tyrol.social]

@stragu @SecoasecasMouse afaik @Mastodon is currently still under German jurisdiction anyway, if the German government wanted them to censor certain content (on Mastodon.social or a gmbh-operated FASP server) they could probably already tell them so. The funding doesnt change much in that regard.. and I do not think Mastodon would agree to such demands.

[grb090423@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund

Well done whoever worked to get this funding!

[vervain@mastodon.vervainglobal.com]

@Mastodon @sovtechfund Congratulations! I'm really looking forward to seeing Mastodon and other federated services grow over the coming years