Felix Hlatky

Executive Director at Mastodon (npub163h…mv0n)

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2026-07-16 08:20:02 UTC

Who else is noticing AI-generated illustrations in the real world appearing at new hairdressers, ice-cream parlors, kebap shops, butcheries, everywhere?
Sure, there's no reason why AI slop should be confined to the online world. But as long as I will still be able to distinguish AI signs from non-AI signs, I will consider these AI stores/restaurants as inferior quality. Is that wrong?
#AI

2026-07-16 05:15:03 UTC

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I didn't know about @npub19ak…fca7 - thanks for the suggestion. Hope you had a good time at dWeb Camp and made it home safe! :)

2026-07-01 07:14:25 UTC

I just created my first collection on history. Which historians or other history-related accounts in the fediverse am I missing?
#history #collection #collections
https://mastodon.social/collections/116843436442889237

2026-06-24 11:44:17 UTC

I will be at the Digital Humanism Conference on Friday with @npub1z6r…eawd @npub13qm…mar7 @npub1drm…j897 @npub12gd…hdsz @npub134c…cy54 @npub108s…tznn @npub1qyr…6pjs @npub1mal…nzws
#DigHum2026 #vienna
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2026-06-07 16:22:18 UTC

After individually meeting @npub100m…ajzk in April and @npub1fxy…2ju5 in May, it felt great to meet both again with [@rude1.blacksky.team](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team ) at #pubconf2026 This is still a competitive situation. Our protocols and the incentives they create matter. Our backgrounds influence what we build. Our financing models bind and enable us. But I felt all of us belonging to "Team Open" very strongly in Amsterdam. I am excited to see where this will bring us and what we can do together.

2026-05-20 20:01:50 UTC

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Is there a recording? Thanks for doing this!

2026-05-20 12:52:26 UTC

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I would love to join the show but I need to rush to the airport right after my panel ends (17.15) 😒 @npub1l7h…pwl6 @npub1w4r…8cxz @npub1qda…wevs @npub1yct…n02a

2026-05-20 05:32:39 UTC

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I hope the conference is in Belgium otherwise I'm about to board the wrong plane :) @npub1cdd…kxdw

2026-05-14 08:20:30 UTC

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Ist die Info noch korrekt, dass Palantir in Hessen, NRW, BW und Bayern im Einsatz ist?

2026-04-18 20:48:18 UTC

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I'm trying to coordinate with their admin to find a solution swiftly.

2026-03-31 16:22:52 UTC

We're hiring for a part-time position in Finance & Operations at @npub163h…mv0n. Fluent German and English language skills are a requirement. In terms of location it's a hybrid role so we're looking for candidates in #berlin or #vienna. I believe this is a rare opportunity to learn about the organisational side of technology non-profits and open source.
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/6c969533-e00e-468a-959c-e3c366ff10a4/
#fedihire #job #jobs

2026-02-19 11:21:15 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116086899600949599
I want to expand on the age-verification working group plan, to avoid confusion. The goal is to create an informal group of experts in the areas of law, privacy, trust & safety, and technology. Their agenda is explicitly not to _implement_ age verification/assurance, neither in the Mastodon software nor in our own servers. The group will assess various risks for the user base, the server admins, and the project and analyse it from different perspectives to provide a balanced recommendation.
#note1hks…0zxg

2026-02-02 14:01:55 UTC

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Thanks for joining me on the panel on DSA at #FOSDEM. At EU Tech Stars you will meet our technical director @npub1zu5…pytj.

2026-01-22 18:05:43 UTC

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Maybe it's a nod to the power of the fediverse: all these instances (even m.s) are so small they disappear once you zoom out enough on the map with very little power concentration compared to the logos listed 🙂

2026-01-16 13:13:13 UTC

Mastodon is looking for recruiting support to help us hire two exceptional backend engineers for multiple ambitious projects. More news on the specifics and the job description to follow soon.
This is a rare opportunity to work closely with our team on a non-technical project. If you might be interested in this or know someone, please get in touch. Ideally this should be fully or partially pro bono and start end of January.
#fedihired #jobs #hiring

2025-12-31 12:06:04 UTC

Thanks to everyone contributing to our community, through contributing your work, giving back financially, by providing advice, or by using Mastodon and other fedi services. Wishing you a good end of the year and see you all in 2026 :BlobhajTinyHeart:

2025-12-15 19:03:54 UTC

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What do you wish for Mastodon to come true in 2026?

2025-12-15 19:03:21 UTC

Just finished the board meeting with @npub138y…67lg @npub198q…pp8u @npub1uj9…tmuu [@haubles](https://hachyderm.io/@haubles ) @npub1zu5…pytj @npub1vl7…f6g0 where we spoke a lot about the strategy for next year.

2025-11-18 08:06:52 UTC

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Most importantly, thanks to everyone here, to the whole community. I promise to always put the humans here first and to keep this a safe space for you, no matter how you express yourself and where you come from. I will treat my new position with the most respect. Let’s make Mastodon and the Fediverse even more beautiful than it already is <3
(13/13)

2025-11-18 08:06:41 UTC

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We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever grateful for. We still have a large funding need for 2026, so please consider making a donation before the year-end if you’d like us to continue building and improving Mastodon https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate
(12/13)

2025-11-18 08:05:04 UTC

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But Mastodon wouldn’t be where it is without so many more people than Eugen. I’m incredibly grateful to be able to work with the best team we’ve ever had. Each one of you brings so much value to the Mastodon project and I want to thank you for making our mission your day job while you could certainly earn double or triple at one of our for-profit competitors.
(11/13)

2025-11-18 08:04:50 UTC

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Thanks @npub1vl7…f6g0 for allowing us to do this the pure non-profit and FOSS way by saying no to earlier offers, some of which would have given you more than 10x the payout. I have been inspired by your vision about this project from the moment I met you 5+ years ago. It takes a lot of courage and greatness to let this project go. Super excited for continuing to work with you!
(10/13)

2025-11-18 08:04:23 UTC

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I want to send my heartfelt thanks @npub198q…pp8u @npub16sd…pm34 for their wisdom and emotional support during this crazy journey so far, to @npub1g63…ezt9 @npub1uj9…tmuu for your visionary strategic & financial support without which this restructuring would not have been possible, and to the team of Paul Hastings for your pro-bono legal advice.
(9/13)

2025-11-18 08:03:23 UTC

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Thanks to amazing people like
@npub1hg6…nwn8 @npub1y2r…kvzk [@swf](https://socialwebfoundation.org ) @npub1g03…d2qp @npub1mf6…g967 @npub1dvx…gems we can see through topics larger than us related to policy, regulation, protocol development as well as how to deal with spam attacks, how to design a safer product for everyone, and how to deal with occasional interpersonal conflicts in our beautiful part of the internet.
(8/13)

2025-11-18 08:02:25 UTC

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Many of us would also not be here if it weren’t for patient and forward thinking people in media and civil society like @npub19g4…6a0t @npub17m8…rsw8 @npub1jsu…vkpy @npub1qy7…et4k [@markus_netzpolitik](https://chaos.social/@markus_netzpolitik ) @npub108s…tznn @npub1evt…xdke @npub1xp6…r57h
(7/13)

2025-11-18 08:01:08 UTC

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I have huge respect for everyone contributing to the Fediverse: the larger-than-life architects like @npub1urx…v0z4 @npub1764…nuj0 (without whom we would literally all not be here), implementers like @npub1xsv…q6he bringing photo & video to it, new projects like @npub142g…kmy5 @npub19hh…yxnx @npub10j9…90pt @npub1fug…35hh @npub1lzd…urpr @npub1h4u…nkgz @npub1u7r…c7cr orgs like @npub13fk…z5hw [@mike](https://flipboard.com/@mike ) [@john](https://john.onolan.org/ ) [@ghost](https://threads.net/@ghost/ ) [@activitypub.blog](https://activitypub.blog ) @npub1jwr…7v3w bringing the media over to the Fediverse, and @npub1yk0…g32h @npub168y…upza for trying out completely new things.
(6/13)

2025-11-18 07:56:17 UTC

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My personal heroes and projects I admire are @npub1rkw…5q62 [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith ) @npub1vwv…cqgs @npub1dug…kxeq @npub1hxz…r8sj @npub1uy3…jrxl . I’d much rather have Mastodon be inspired by the contributions of these people and projects to the FOSS and non-profit technology world than trying to rebuild early Twitter.
(5/13)

2025-11-18 07:54:52 UTC

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My vision for Mastodon is a different direction than all previous attempts at social media, by focussing on community ownership, Trust & Safety features, slow user & server growth, and financial sustainability - for the non-profit project, the server administrators, the moderators, and creators in the Fediverse. I’m thrilled to have [@haubles](https://hachyderm.io/@haubles ) as Community Director and @npub1zu5…pytj as Technical Director on my side in making this vision a reality.
(4/13)

2025-11-18 07:54:19 UTC

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Mastodon and the Fediverse matter to me because they present a truly viable alternative to this model, by showing its users no advertisement, respecting users’ privacy, focussing on keeping users safe, and allowing them to connect to the Fediverse and beyond rather than putting them into a digital prison to extract as much metadata about them to please advertisers.
(3/13)

2025-11-18 07:54:04 UTC

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I’m humbled to be given this opportunity and want to tell you a bit more about myself and how I think about the future of Mastodon and the Fediverse. I have a business and finance background. I have worked for technology companies my whole career but have become increasingly tired of the extractive venture capital model of financing them, which only works for the rare outliers and seemingly never leads to the best product humans deserve.
(2/13)

2025-11-18 07:53:00 UTC

Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @npub1vl7…f6g0 as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the German non-profit, am a co-founder of the US 501c3 non-profit, and I have contributed to most of the fundraising success, which allowed us to expand the team.
(1/13)

2025-10-22 12:37:30 UTC

Good panel at "Healthy Online Info Spaces" by invitation of OSCE RFoM. Thanks @npub16kk…8dxe for your remark during Q&A. We should connect with @npub14xp…yacm @npub1f2x…k75w @npub1whe…jcnz @npub1vwt…e9cp next time we're in the Netherlands
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#OSCE #vienna #netherlands #austria @npub1qmv…50nc
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2025-02-12 17:05:10 UTC

Coming to #taiwan next week to represent @npub163h…mv0n at @npub1p9k…0p6w with @npub13za…8j89 🇹🇼 #rightscon

2024-12-26 23:19:21 UTC

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Beautiful work!

2024-10-31 13:08:47 UTC

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The Economist is pretty clearly in "billionaire hands" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/15/economist-becomes-a-family-affair-agnellis
I'm generally also a fan of the Economist, by the way.

2024-09-28 18:12:17 UTC

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Based in Vienna now :)

2024-09-05 14:28:32 UTC

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Thank you, you can use the text below!
> Join SOLARYS! We're a profitable, software company empowering 3,000+ volunteer fire brigades with our ERP system syBOS. We're expanding and need German-speaking PHP devs of all exp levels! 💻👨‍🚒 --> https://www.solarys.com/unternehmen/karriere

2024-09-05 11:37:37 UTC

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Hi Sarah, next to my job at Mastodon I'm CEO of a software company which develops an ERP system for firefighters based on PHP. Do you have German speaking profiles as well? I wasn't able to filter for it. Thanks!

2024-09-04 12:32:31 UTC

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Moin! Ich bin neben meiner Tätigkeit bei Mastodon in meinem "Day Job" CEO bei SOLARYS. Wir entwickeln Alarmierungssoftware für freiwillige Feuerwehr und Rettung, also endlich mal ein Produkt das Sinn macht 🙂 Wäre 100% remote möglich. Wollen wir mal sprechen?

2019-11-17 14:15:23 UTC

I'm a Berlin-based entrepreneur and am new to Mastodon.
My larger goal is to replace all creepy social services, such as:
• Twitter to Mastodon ✅
• GMail to ProtonMail
• Google Calendar to ProtonCalendar
• WhatsApp to Telegram
• Facebook to WT:Social
• Google Drive to ProtonDrive/NextCloud
• Google Chrome to Mozilla Firefox
Anyone has similar ambitions or achieved the same?