Itās no small shock thatā¦ checks notesā¦ the adherents of a āmonetary systemā that is clearly being used for criminal activities such as money laundering are on board with a criminal running the country. They just want the regulations to go so they can take the money and run.
Disclaimer: I personally use bitcoin to donate to my favorite piracy sites. I have zero interest in bitcoin as an investment, because Iām not a fool.
This makes me happy, not giddy, not excited, but thereās something waiting for me thatās absolutely incomprehensible.
Twenty years ago it wouldāve kept me up at night and made me cry silently into my pillow.
Many years ago I noticed Iād get those thoughts when I stayed up too late into the morning wasting my time away, and I would panic and spiral, but when I woke up Iād barely have memory of those thoughts.
Now when I stay up to late and I get those thoughts I know itās time to go to bed, I just accept that they come, and I know that theyāll be there, they just donāt bother me. Very much like my eventual demise.
If theyāre intrusive you probably havenāt had enough time to contemplate them. Live with them a while and youāll find them to be another part of existence, and theyāll make you appreciate your existence, no matter how temporary, even more.
And donāt ever believe anyone who says they know what happen to them/you the moments following your demise, they only hope to make your time with this existence benefit themselves.
But seriously, I think itās still an extremely tough sell to get people to pay for social media. I also think this is only meaningfully effective at a pretty large scale, I think the fediverse is better with many small servers. If we do want this sort of larger scale development I donāt think ādonate to voteā is particularly appealing to the average user.
I think a more enticing model I think is pay for feature work. An estimate is made for a features difficulty and then users donate (with some sort of fee to go towards server maintenance/upkeep) towards a feature and if the goal is reached the feature is worked on. This is already a popular model for particularly translations of freeware.
Interesting. Although the āpay for featureā falls in the charity trap again, no? People unfortunately arenāt willing to donate much (see the peanuts that Lemmy devs get for instance).
I donāt think ādonate to voteā is particularly appealing to the average user.
Hmmā¦ It adds a value proposition though, doesnāt it? A simple ādonate so that we can keep running n developingā doesnāt seem to be working that well for Lemmy it seems.
Saying, āif you donate, u literally get to participate in legislation for the future development of the coopā + stuff like special badges kinda provide SOME more value than the free user, no?
I dunno, I canāt really think of a better way for fundraising directly from consumers other than this. A third option is offering special, branded internal social media platforms (like Yammer) for businesses, but thatās it.
I so so wish if we could have a user funded nice, completely developed fediverse social media platform that also is a coop haha.
Iāve seen coop models working kiiiiinda okay for server maintenance. I was talking more in terms of raw development + maintenance. Lemmy needs SO MANY features, but simply lacks funds to hire devs to get stuff done. Sure, there r devs willing to donate their time, but stillā¦ Isnāt there a way other than charity for this?
I donāt thinkMetafilter is structured as a coop (nor is it federated), but you do have to pay to join, and the workers do get paid. It is being converted into a nonprofit. It is long-established and changes very little, so their software development costs must be very small.
My job involves going out to sites to install equipment sometimes. This means as long as Iām walking out with a box in my hand I can leave whenever I want. My boss doesnāt care where I am as long as things get done.
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