@Hamishcampbell I have no idea how the funding works on this. I have limited resources since I am a retiree on social security. But I could kick in a few $$ a month. What is the forecast? And if we have to change instances what happens to data, people we follow and those who follow us?
The openclective is the funding side of the #OMN and
campaign openworlds info? is an instances that is a part of this wider #openweb activist project #OMN
you can see the money coming out here, but this is mostly only to cover the mastodon instances, as the OVH servers have been paid out of historic foundation funding that has now run out.
One problem is I have not reinbust the activism instance before we shut it down so cant get the invoices for this so looks like am personally paying for the last 3-6 month of use for that instances, bit crap but there you are. Mess.
@Hamishcampbell@michaelgraaf@rooftopaxx So, it seems that I am the only one who is willing to put up some money to keep this instance going. I cannot do it by myself. So Will need to find out how I can find a new instnce and transfer my data to it. Hope there is a way to do it without losing all I follow and those who follow me. Can any one help me with that. Would prefer to keep this one going but cannot afford to do it on my own.
@Hamishcampbell Wonder if anybody even notices let alone reads that little announcement thingie?
Is the Nov 5 date the end of the feedback period or the actual shutdown?
@rooftopaxx@nedhamson the is no shutdown date yet, we are still consulting #4opens but as you say I don't think this instance has the focus or community to stay online.
@rooftopaxx we have been running these instances for admin and mod #UX for the #OMN projects rather than the power for social change, as you say the instance community failed a year or more ago.
We now face a funding crunch due to none of the funding applications going through for the tech projects... so it's supporting community or closer #OMN
@Hamishcampbell OK, leaving the #OMN thing aside and limiting this to any Mastodon instance, wondering more whether this discussion reaches 'users' such as eg @LMN - looking around in the Profiles directory https://campaign.openworlds.info/directory most here are either inactive or possibly lurking. One day they'll wake up and find their instance dead or perhaps they'll never even notice ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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