News Summary

• Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X, has a new plan to make money.
• The company announced on Friday that it will now offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations that want to join the open social web.
• That network, also called the fediverse, offers a way for individuals and organizations to set up their own servers that interconnect with others that run the same protocol, ActivityPub.