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Ian Littman

@leo dot-social and which other?

tbf throwing money at dot-social *does* finance the busiest instance, and dev to keep that site up should ripple back into smaller instances being able to run better/more cheaply.

But if you aren't on one of those big two instances, definitely worth checking if your own instance needs the money first :)

19 Nov 2022 at 18:01 | Wall-to-wall | Open on phpc.social
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MxFraud

@ian

If anything, the money provides the main dev to do as he wish as opposed to work with the community.

The day Eugen will have to get another job (and mastodon.social disappear) we will finally have a chance to get good governance.

The money absolutey does not trickle down into benefits for instance owners and most of the improvement comes from the community.

Give money to tusky/metatext if you want to do something useful for everyone

@leo

19 Nov 2022 at 19:44 | Open on tabletop.social
Ian Littman

@mxfraud @leo Last I checked, Eugen still contributes a significant amount to the software itself. I agree that Tusky and Metatext are preferable mobile clients, so definitely donate to them, but there are some pluses to 4.0. And having an instance 10-100x larger than the one I'm on means any scaling issues we have will be solved problems by the time we get to them.

19 Nov 2022 at 22:59 | Open on phpc.social
MxFraud

@ian last I checked I contributed a PR, it was rejected and Eugen just did his own with the exact same change.
It was a detail, like a couple line or something, and maybe it was not looking decent enough.

Yet that's a change that on paper is his.
It happend to other people and maybe it doesn't happen that much anymore.

Also if he wants to keep coding, why not get someone to do the project leadership, those are different skill sets.

@leo

@ian last I checked I contributed a PR, it was rejected and Eugen just did his own with the exact same change.
It was a detail, like a couple line or something, and maybe it was not looking decent enough.

Yet that's a change that on paper is his.
It happend to other people and maybe it doesn't happen that much anymore.

20 Nov 2022 at 6:28 | Open on tabletop.social
Ian Littman

@mxfraud @leo Those are indeed different skill sets. Maybe he'll figure that out with the rush of users. Or an alternate ActivityPub impl will push him to be a better steward of his.

20 Nov 2022 at 6:39 | Open on phpc.social
MxFraud

@ian @leo I am rooting for the second one (Maybe it'll be GoToSocial, maybe it'll be something else)

20 Nov 2022 at 6:59 | Open on tabletop.social
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