If I could, I'd love to make some sort of company that supports content creation for a lot of these people who get deplatformed; a haven for the sane.
I'm envisioning something like https://shittyurl.org/ but with good marketing and a blog for journalists and freelance writers
There needs to be a complete, wholistic, understandable infrastructure for the banned
The big issue I see with a lot of alt tech is that it's like "ooh, go to this site and sign up for this; go to that site and download that" all with different branding, it gets confusion, there is no cohesion.
These systems are cool, but they will continue to be confusing until they become branded in a way that makes sense to normies
Maybe this is a pipe dream, and isn't a good idea to do. I certainly think that it could be not only fun, but beneficial to many.
I won't start actually acting on this plan until I can see proof of sustainability tho
@realcaseyrollins if QOTO had single sign-on, I think that'd really be all that's needed.
@khird I frankly think that needs to be a feature added to all #Fediverse properties, it would be wonderful
Then I could say "hey, sign up on our service and use the same sign in on all our platforms"! Or, I could say "sign up on one of our platforms USING another platform like #QOTO"!
I feel like this would be ultimate freedom and create a viable alternative to "Sign in with Google" or "Sign in with FaceBook"
@realcaseyrollins: would that be something akin to what OpenId meant to be?
@realcaseyrollins I normally don't like Tim's stuff at all (I generally don't like talking head videos). I can feel where he's going here, but a lot of people can't just quit their jobs. I know I don't have the drive to be self sustainable (trust me, I've tried, twice https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/perspective/a-tale-of-two-journeys/). I do like this clip and feel his frustration. If I hadn't just signed a new lease in April, I'd probably move to Texas right now and just volunteer on open source stuff.
@djsumdog Yeah, it can really be a battle.
BTW i didn't have time to read the entire article, only to skim it. What was it you were attempting to do independently?
@realcaseyrollins Either trying to get into school, working on https://bigsense.io (which I may start picking up again) or blogging+Patreon (I think I'm up to $8 per post 😅)
@djsumdog Very cool! Yeah if you look at the rest of the thread from the original toot, I have a lot of ideas on making a company that could support independent content creators...the real issue would be getting enough donors, and convincing people to pour money into the company in order to fund it. The plan is to not only run instances but also blogs and video platforms. And I wouldn't deem it a success if I can profit off it, but if it's profitable for the actual users and content creators themselves.
I don't have all the pieces of the puzzle figured out. I'm just brainstorming atm.
Makes me want even more to make my own company someday.