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This might seem like a very sudden decision I came to over night but it's been keeping me thinking for quite some time now. Creating a Discord bot is tough, especially when you do most of the work yourself. While I had great assistance from my Staff, I still did the heavy lifting (no, not in gym). It's been also very hard to maintain due to it's size and the fact that I'm the only one working on it. Bugs are hard to find and fix and new features are hard (sometimes) to implement. I also have to admit that I lost a lot of motivation. However I did learn a lot. I perfected my design skills, especially with the rebrand. I also learned a lot about Python/discord.py and how to use it properly. I also learned a lot about postgres and even learned SQL (yes, I didn't knew it before). I also learned a lot about how to manage a project and creating an Open Collective. It was a pleasure working with the Open Source Collective team and I'm very thankful for their help. Also huge thanks to the people who donated to Tako. It really helped me to keep going, even if I didn't make any profit, I could still pay at least the server bills. The Tako Server is also something I poured my heart into and I loved tinkering around with it. But in the end I just lost motivation and I don't want to keep working on something I don't enjoy any more. I'll also close down the Tako Server and will focus on my own personal Server called Pukima's Place instead. However I will still keep the bot running and thus the Open Collective will stay open, so you can still donate to keep it running. I will also probably push out the next version, which also includes the re-brand changes. But after that I will stop working on it. Eventually the bot will be taken down and the Open Collective will be closed, if we don't receive enough donations. But feel free to host the bot yourself, if you want to keep it running. The source code will remain public and I will still accept pull requests under github.com/tako-discord/tako. I hope you understand my decision and I'm sorry for everyone who was looking forward to the future of Tako. Searching for an alternative? Check out Halcy (it's beta will start soon). Both the design and features are very well thought of and every detail is being looked at. It's also going to be mostly free but has a cheap pricing model for premium features. I recently joined their team as an Admin to help them by advising them with all the knowledge I collected with Tako. Love you all and thanks for the support! ~ Pukima

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So on Monday Twitter accepted Elon Musk's Offer to buy Twitter for $54,20 per share. That's a total of 44 Billion US Dollars! After that was announced, #Mastodon was trending on Twitter. In case you don't know, Mastodon is an open-source and decentralized social Network like Twitter but with way more features, everyone can create their own version and because of that it is very privacy-friendly. You can find out more over at joinmastodon.org. Why is Twitter dying now? Well…not everyone is happy that Elon Musk owns Twitter now because he can do whatever he wants now. His plans are to make Twitter to a free speech platform. This is a problem because free speech doesn't mean everything and because of the misunderstanding people often have either Twitter is going to be more toxic and extreme or we’ll see a long ban list in the future. The advantage of Mastodon is that each instance owner can decide by their self who to ban. So if your favorite tooter gets banned just use another instance. There are a lot of instance who give you enough freedom without Nazis etc. Why Mastodon is a great Alternative There is a missing feature like the edit button (actually implemented by both)? Just implement it yourself! That's how it works. The code is open-source and everybody can work at it and host their own version of Mastodon while you can still communicate with others. glitch-soc for example is a pretty popular fork which adds cool customization features and more to the platform but you can still communicate with Vanilla Mastodon users for example. You think there isn't a instance that fits you? Just create your own instance with your own rules!