Gregory's ServerI think finding a model for sustainable development and operations of the #fediverse is fundamental for survival of healthy information space. Could #wikimedia approach be helpful?
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@J12t @thisismissem donate to #mastodon (or #kbin , etc) developers and instances to get space for communication and news where I spend at least an hour a day. If I can pay for a coffee I am drinking while writing this, I can pay for keeping this medium alive. The fact that #wikimedia is alive means this model is possible to a degree. Maybe a slightly broader foundation could be a way to do this which is a bit less volatile.  @volodymyr @thisismissem oh, the money is not the problem. People have, what, $50 or more to spend on mobile phone service per month, and use free Wi-Fi half the time anyway. (Imagine if people spent $50 per month on the fediverse, and what could be done!) The interesting question is: why are they fine with spending it on cell service and not on an open communication network eg the fediverse? What could be done to change that? @J12t @thisismissem well, they pay for cell service because they have no other way to access it. #wikipedia is I think a better example since nobody is forced to pay for it. Why does it live? Because it has become well known? #mastodon is getting there. By the way, maybe #wikimedia could itself support #fediverse since #jimmywales wt.social did not quite work out? Also, by the way, I think instances with subscriptions, at least optional, would not be crazy. |
@volodymyr @thisismissem how would you apply it?
If I donate to Wikipedia I fund the greatest encyclopedia ever created. If I donate to (whom exactly) I fund (what exactly)?