Fediverse

30470 readers

987 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

82 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I use Bluesky and Mastodon. Mastodon better hits where I want the fediverse to go but Bluesky is so much easier to use. Signup, UI, flagship app, feeds, and content is just so much less of a headache. But it feels like it's a matter of time before it's enshittified.

I was thinking about how much I hate big tech but there's a lot of small and mid-size companies that I have neutral to positive views on. Canonical, Mozilla, 37 Signals, Odoo are the ones that come to mind. All of those have a revenue model but also actively support open source initiatives and developers. None are perfect but better than "big tech" and get more done than just donation based development.

It feels like there needs to be some for-profit companies (without ads and maintaining privacy) that can help support the development around ActivityPub and maintain apps and servers that are easier to onboard and easier to use. Does this exist?

What could be some non-evil revenue models? I pay $20/month for a blogging platform for my business website. Maybe have a service to host AP servers for businesses or journalists? Personal private encrypted cloud services like photo backups that are integrated with AP?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're treating me like a piece of shit for nothing more than trying to understand more about the words you wrote but I suppose I'll stop doing that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Cue the pearl clutching and jaqassery.

You open with a sarcastic comment, ask me what the meaning of the word “implemented” is, and then act like you’ve just been sweet and asking innocent questions? You’ll have to excuse me if I’m a little incredulous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Who hurt you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Now you're trying too hard