Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”
-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:
https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail
@eloquence This is interesting! I've wanted to start my own instance for awhile (currently working with @p on that) and I mean I'd have two funding goals:
1. It can raise enough money to pay for itself (covers its own costs)
2. It can raise enough buffer to start other federated or #FOSS sister services/projects
I mean it'd be cool to have a career out of running a #Fediverse instance running just off of the donations but I'm not seeing it as all that feasible rn...
But most fedu users don't trust that because it invades privacy, therefore you're missing the point of bitcoin
@jojo @p @xianc78 @eloquence Yeah, exactly
I'm looking into other options that support Bitcoin
@realcaseyrollins @jojo @p @eloquence There's BitBacker but it seems like they're down atm.
https://bitbacker.io/
> it'd be cool to have a career out of running a #Fediverse instance running just off of the donations
Yeah, I agree, but it's like, I run my mail server so that I (and a few other people) can have email that Google doesn't touch. I'm not really worried about money for something like that any more than I am about turning a profit cooking myself dinner.
thas rite 
@realcaseyrollins @eloquence @p In order for that to work, I think you need to use a monthly crowdtipping service like Patreon or Subscribe Star as I think one-time donations won't be enough.