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You recognize that Mastodon, the software, is developed by a non-profit called Mastodon gGmbH?

Radioactive Butthole
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Actually I was not aware of that, thank you for telling me.

Mastodon gHmbH? What happened there? Was he naming the company and somehow fell on the keyboard?

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Close, it’s German. Basically an LLC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmbH

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No it’s not. It’s a gGmbH. Notice the leading “g”. It’s a nonprofit company.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinnützige_GmbH

Unfortunately there is no English translation of that page on Wikipedia.

Let’s just call it a nonprofit.

gGmbH = gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung = limited liability company serving the public benefit

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Is the first g the “for public benefit” part? Because isn’t GmbH an evil company?

Also, isn’t the norm that if you’re doing good, you don’t name the leader a CEO but a Director or something?

yes, gemeinnützig = serving the public benefit (literally approximately: gemein = common, nützig = useful, i.e. useful to the common good)

GmbH is just the (almost literal) translation of LLC.

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And we’re on Lemmy, so any LLC is inherently evil. /s

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If your goal is profit, then yes.

/not s

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When I was a kid I always pictured a goomba when I saw GmbH.

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Thats a good association.

God damn the German language sure uses the entire alphabet in every word…How do they fit names onto their street signs???

Replace ss with ß.

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the longest street name in Germany is “Bischöflich-Geistlicher-Rat-Josef-Zinnbauer-Straße”, which I don’t think is that different from something like “St Martin-in-the-Fields Church Path” in the UK.

(I’m purposefully ignoring Wales, because they’re just fucking with us at this point)

Well thank goodness they have that ß character to help keep their street names so efficient.

Are the Welsh fucking anything other than their flock?

Do you have a problem with the language that’s half l and y?

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The can keep their l’s and y’s, my issue is that I don’t trust their language after their longest town name was arbitrarily made so to reap in unsuspecting tourists

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@Lost_My_Mind @TheTechnician27 A gGmbH is roughly comparable to a PBLLC.

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Lmfao, no clue why you’re being downvoted so much. It’s absolutely true that the camel-case here looks like a clusterfuck, even when it’s easily explained.

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Cat on the keyboard. Been there…

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