The salt mine and troll would be much greater to bring back trump and merge with truth social putting twitter on the fediverse

Curious though, mastadadon owners can potentially be like that too, no? And stakes are too low to do mischief with mastadon vs. Twitter.

of course! but my reply was to answer "claiming Twitter or Facebook will be shut down any time soon is laughable."

which is ... truly laughable if you like doge?

Who are mastodon owners?

the individual owners/operators of each mastodon instance.

there is the mastodon project, but you can fork the code and make your own community if you want more control over your own codebase when it comes to your own mastodon instance

The owners of the Mastodon instances one connects to.

Yes, but why did you ask? I suppose that's exactly one of the reasons why fediverse users want to choose who they trust, isn't it?

That might be slightly over exaggerated. Musk may have other equity investors and certainly has other debt investors (assuming they come through, but then the whole deal hinges on it). So he still has some level of fiduciary responsibility. And a need to cover his Tesla stock backed loans with generated cash flow. Though how much impact that would have is definitely debatable, it probably isn't zero.