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...
@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.
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/
@xianc78 @eloquence @p Yes, most likely