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Different CEOs will have different visions. The old CEO believed more in the value of social and the new one is more pragmatic and wants to focus on deliverable things with tangible returns like Firefox. It's sad though as I think killing Mozilla.social is a mistake and a short-sighted decision.
Both CEOs are horrible but the new one is a former McKinsey consultant with a background in finance and the silicon-valley C-suite. According to statements she put out her strategy is: layoffs and AI.
how much of the budget can a mastodon instance even take? like yeah sure don't invest more into it but surely they could just leave it as a place for official fediverse accounts for their various projects?
Infrastructure for a 300 MAU Mastodon instance isn't very much, but if they're paying employees to run it then that will drive expenses up quite a bit compared to how it is with volunteer-run instances.
Less than €100 a month
Social media people only get paid €100 a month? I doubt that.
I was talking about the server costs. For less than 300 users, the cost isn't exorbitant.