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If you're looking for a platform without billionaire investors and owners, well, this is the only one.
@evan Says the person who took fediverse 1.0 to VC funders and turned it into "Enterprise Social Software".
https://web.archive.org/web/20120612121941/http://status.net/
Then the money ran out, as did you.
You could be telling that story over and over again as a cautionary tale, instead of kidding on that you're some kind of flawless elder statesman.
Err. I think Evan was looking for other revenue streams to keep the identi.ca service going for enthusiastic and loyal users (like me and you). He was undoubtedly subsiding the costs of providing that service for a long time (probably out of his own pocket).
Not harbouring dreams of becoming a 'billionaire'.
@andyc Thanks!
Also, hi! It feels like it's been a while. How are you?
@evan Still working for the evil borg (Oracle) working on DB cloud migrations and studiously avoiding AI/LLM's.
Still clinging to the distant, forlorn hope of becoming a billionaire 
@andyc Good on you! You can buy a social network, then.
@andyc also, and I hate to be the one to tell you, but Oracle isn't even in the top 20 of most evil tech companies any more. It feels kind of quaint to think about a time when the worst thing a tech company could do was have aggressive sales teams that get their product into a borderline monopoly percentage of the world's server rooms.
@evan The 'evil borg' is slightly tongue in cheek. Oracle and Ellison certainly have their faults but we work in a small technical consulting group (50) in the UK so we feel very distanced from corporate - more like a startup.
My manager often used to eagerly ask:
'Team - I really hope you all saw the Town Hall/All Hands meeting on Wednesday' and was always met with a deafening silence