Now, if you are like me, you hear the words “open source” and “decentralized” and then the word “CEO” and think, wait, why does the decentralized open standard have a CEO? The whole point is that no single person or company is in charge, right? Well, welcome to the wild world of open-source governance. It’s a riot, my friends. You’re going to hear me and Eugen say the phrase “benevolent dictator for life” in dead seriousness because that’s how a lot of these projects are run.
https://www.theverge.com/23658648/mastodon-ceo-twitter-interview-elon-musk-twitter#:~:text=Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon,— the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter.
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