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Please, tell me how "paying for hardware costs is enough"...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You made clear that you

  • only use the Fediverse as a way to create a business for yourself
  • don't care about this platform with its horrible crab mentality
  • think that a 50k community has enough resources to sustain the full time salaries of dozens of developers and sysadmins
  • discredit community building while you complain that people don't come to your communities or instances
  • think that community moderation and building doesn't add value to the platform

Two can play that game

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
  • the fact that you think that "creating a business" is bad says more about you than me. And I don't want a business "just for me". I am looking for a sustainable way where many people can work in tech and create technology that does not exploit the users, but this will never happen if the people working are expected to do it from free and still figure out how to make rent.
  • not quite, see above. I don't particularly care about the individuals and I certainly wish to change the prevailing culture. I am not here to have any significant impact on people individually and I am not concerned about "being nice". I do care about finding one platform that can be sustainable and universally accessible, though.
  • no, but I think that the LW users do have the resources to allow Ruud to work full-time on Fediverse stuff, but for some reason there are 18k users there who think it is okay to exploit his free labor.
  • pick a lane: do you think that "community building" is a job, or not? Are you participating here as a service to others or do you out of personal enjoyment? If you want to be paid for it, then state your value and tell me how much you think your work is worth.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Not worth it, we had that conversation several times already