Administrative updates

In November 2025, we shared our new organisational structure, and explained that the process to establish a new, non-profit, home for the project in Europe is well underway.

In the same post, we also mentioned that our German-based organisation has had its former charitable status removed. As a result, we are making necessary changes to some of the legal terminology across the project, and on our websites.

Specifically, in most places where Mastodon gGmbH was previously mentioned (including in the about pages of Mastodon servers) we’re revising the text, to refer to Mastodon GmbH. The “g” stands for non-profit (German: gemeinnützig), and this adjustment is being made to reflect the change of status of this part of our organisation structure, in Germany.

Furthermore, Marius Rothermund was appointed in January 2026 as second managing director of Mastodon GmbH, in addition to Felix Hlatky. The reason for this is to distribute management tasks over more shoulders and ensure full compliance during this critical phase of restructuring. The imprint for our German organisation now reflects this change. Marius will accompany us until we establish our new European non-profit holding structure.

These changes are to fulfil legal requirements, and reflect our current operational status. There is no change to our mission, or direction (mentioned in our recent FOSDEM presentation, with more to come on the blog next week); overall, Mastodon remains a non-profit with a fiscal sponsor in Germany (via WE AID) and via our 501(c)(3) entity in the United States.

The next steps will be to form a Belgian non-profit parent organisation. You can expect to see more news before the Summer.