It's probably obvious to move of you, but a big difference between the commercial social media platforms and the fediverse is that as those commercial platform grow, they get additional revenue from ads, from selling personal information, and otherwise monetizing their users. While that is turning out to not actually pay the bills for them, in the fediverse, just about every instance is run by volunteers and funded by donations or out of the volunteers' pockets. It's a labor of love and a hope for a better future. When traffic grows, we need to expand our capacity.
That is why I am asking, if you are able, please consider donating to the instance you on to help keep the fediverse ecosystem going. Typically the /about web page will have details on how to donate.
Note: I am well aware that many of you are not in a financial position to donate - and that is OK. We are here to serve you as well. Donations are completely optional.
Donation requests still feel very distant sometimes between providers and users. Not just this as example but many providers are far from using or involving what's possible (us as a resource!)
@jerry
@jerry Donation requests still feel very distant sometimes between providers and users.
Not just this as example but many providers are far from using or involving what's possible (us as a resource!)
So this is not ungrateful rant but providers should know it takes feelings and education to give to many things or some personality... just more than the distance currently like loading another software on.
And money is tight for everyone A) in the mental sense of releasing it while it's debt based, AND
B) from the point of view of maximising every penny we have letting richer people pay somewhat or economising as a goal for all tech.
Maybe I said too much and it will confuse you but really underlying is the relativity which many (I) don't feel (I don't have money but have time but that isn't appreciates but 'll get on to that after), so towards releasing things is more personal and actually keeping it going without a standard donations template... takes work (text and audio, video something by users).
AND FINALLY - still it's not easy to give more anonymously or universally accessible i.e Banking is only easier by bank transfer locally but paying abroad or adding U$A + verified paypal = fees - all is just crazy (almost stupid)... Yeah monero as best thing cutting from all the bad down to crypto but still not perfect for everyone.
AND REALLY FINALLY - using people's TIME ⏲️ is the key 🔑 for me using people's keyboards (user content, merging my own work, fan work).
and finding their skill (my time, skill) however low that is to get them to work for you/them/us almost like working for ourselves
ELSE we never get out of bad loops of which there are many...
just saying...
- relying on donations has it's days numbered and we knew that already just from our own life itself and forgetting / not feeling for doing things.
I / we am good at unlocking that 🔓
Anything above I can expand on but yes do give and do work on it!
My podcast 📻 I offer just so I leave it as something you can use or comment here!
"Love and Logic" Podcast link:https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111629539902807161
(by the way the pic is of a Vortex donations box, thus using a better way to encourage putting money in and being a fun thing at the same time - using me is like that too if you can find sweet spots / nice combinations)
re: Donation requests still feel very distant sometimes between providers and users. Not just this as example but many providers are far from using or involving what's possible (us as a resource!)
@freeschool if you don't want to donate, it's not required. I thought I was fairly clear about that. I'm not sure that qoto takes donations, anyhow.
re: Donation requests still feel very distant sometimes between providers and users. Not just this as example but many providers are far from using or involving what's possible (us as a resource!)
@jerry The length of people writing can allow people to think what is say is not positive, so I'm just saying I'm being positive on top of the existing...
but there is a lacking for doing more between "us" on various levels.
So for example (again without being attacking)
Not just "if you don't want to donate it's ok" and end of donating theme.
but more towards
"Wow what else can we offer you to give us"
"How can this guy promote us so we don't just stop the energy at money or nothing"
"Can we continue the thread in other things that circle everything we're all about" (because that solves everything including needing so much money)
📔 And just as an example so it's not virtue signalling or utopia: I got full webspace for 10/11years just by asking / having a wishlist that others could work on rather than asking / working myself for money and then paying for cold commercial webspace and person to manage it. (it was more green space at the same time too so unknowingly as the crowd or fans gets the circles a lot more tighter).
