When we get proper groups here, I hope there’s a marketplace like they have on Facebook. Maybe each server could run a marketplace to fund the server. #Mastodon#marketplace#funding#servers
After talking about it with my Patreon supporters, and here on Mastodon, I decided to stop publishing to Odysee. I wrote a short blog post about the reasons, and the options people have to keep watching outside of YouTube if they want to:
@thelinuxEXP#PeerTube is the only proper alternative to centralized platforms like YouTube IMO. The issue is, as always, how to fund these things properly... 🙃 But at least you can read up on an instance's rules, to see if they moderate away horrible things or not. And you can block instances you don't like.
So... anyone got any ideas how we can fund PeerTube, and possibly the larger Fediverse, in a fair way? 🤔
Some exciting news about the "Drupal Pitch-burg" innovation contest! The past week, we have raised $70,000 USD in prize funds. We're hoping that this funding will inspire many of you to participate. A special thank you to the Drupal Association and several sponsors: 1xINTERNET, Digital Polygon, ImageX, Palantir.net, Skilld, Zoocha and Acquia. More details at https://dri.es/70000-usd-for-drupal-innovation-contest#drupal#opensource#funding
Bloody hell, someone just made a €1,024 donation to Small Technology Foundation.
Umm, thank you, whomever you are, we really appreciate it :)
(And thank you to everyone who supports us with a monthly patronage and with one-off donations. It may not pay the rent but it does help us to keep existing and continue working on realising the Small Web with Kitten¹ and Domain².)
"In his excellent book on #surveillance, Bruce Schneier has pointed out we would never agree to carry tracking devices and report all our most intimate conversations if the government made us do it.
But under such a scheme, we would enjoy more legal protections than we have now. By letting ourselves be tracked voluntarily, we forfeit all protection against how that information is used.
Those who control the data gain enormous power over those who don't."
This sums up beautifully why ads can't work as the primary funding model for the web, as it has for newspapers, radio, and television;
"Ad blockers help us safeguard an important principle—that the browser is fundamentally our user agent. It's supposed to be on our side. It sticks up for us. We get to control its behavior. No amount of moralizing about our duty to view unwanted advertisements can change that."
"... creating the very injustices that they then get lauded for giving fractions of the wealth they hoarded to solve...
"... wealthy people refusing to pay their fair of taxes and instead squirreling that money away into family foundations ... to spend on their pet projects at their whims and leisure."