Post 2169038 by kaniini@pleroma.site
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(DIR) Post #2168022 by kaniini@pleroma.site
2018-12-21T17:44:15.661252Z
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i think i am going to need to write a blog post about why taking money from guilty billionaires and institutions is the most effective way of actually achieving our shared goals of scaling fediverse development up to the same level of competitiveness as the proprietary services.you see, we need to get *ahead* of those services and start putting out new features they haven't thought of yet. but we need to have all the features they already thought of.scaling the fediverse to be a serious contender verses facebook/twitter is doable, but it is going to require serious, stable commitments of funding. community fundraising like patreon simply isn't going to scale things up fast enough.
(DIR) Post #2168105 by Deiru@gensokyo.social
2018-12-21T17:47:00Z
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@kaniiniCan you give some context to this?
(DIR) Post #2168128 by Deiru@gensokyo.social
2018-12-21T17:50:45Z
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@Technowix@kaniiniThe only problem I see with this is when it gives "big Bois" leverage over your project. Other than that, it's ok.
(DIR) Post #2169033 by ailurocrat@scicomm.xyz
2018-12-21T17:57:30Z
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@kaniini we should never take corporatist money. Venture/vulture funding would destroy everything good about the fediverse... We need to be better than them, even if it takes longer to achieve.
(DIR) Post #2169034 by kaniini@pleroma.site
2018-12-21T17:58:28.044775Z
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@ailurocrat at no time did I say anything about VC funding.
(DIR) Post #2169035 by ailurocrat@scicomm.xyz
2018-12-21T18:07:06Z
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@kaniini we shouldn't take "guilty billionaires" funding either...
(DIR) Post #2169036 by kaniini@pleroma.site
2018-12-21T18:11:17.568817Z
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@ailurocrat sure we should, it's the best form of income redistribution
(DIR) Post #2169037 by ailurocrat@scicomm.xyz
2018-12-21T18:28:39Z
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@kaniini that just invites a whole bunch of problems, taking money from billionaires is a very bad idea cause that's how the fediverse gets corrupted. How did these billionaires get their money and whose backs did they step on to get it? If we take that money are we complicit? Hard questions that we can avoid if we don't take capitalist money in the first place. There are better ways to grow the fediverse than that.
(DIR) Post #2169038 by kaniini@pleroma.site
2018-12-21T18:29:59.020019Z
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@ailurocrat so let me get this straight, your position is that we should not charge billionaires for the service of fixing the mess they created to begin with. right?
(DIR) Post #2170389 by nether@bsd.moe
2018-12-21T19:20:32.328679Z
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@kaniini i believe it can happen !
(DIR) Post #2172784 by Authoritimmy@jorts.horse
2018-12-21T17:52:51Z
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@kaniiniIn two-thousand-and-late, the biggest draw twitter had was a lack of features. I don't think social networks win on features
(DIR) Post #2173192 by USBloveDog@cybre.space
2018-12-21T21:05:19Z
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@ailurocrat @kaniini Why not take the Clay Davis option of “I don’t say no if someone’s just giving money away”?
(DIR) Post #2173203 by bob@soc.freedombone.net
2018-12-21T18:52:02.600591Z
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@kaniini It's not really about features. I think @aral had a video about this a while ago. Hubzilla has way more features than Facebook. It could be said that it has too many features. Even gnusocial has more features than Twitter. You can do cashless bartering in gnusocial if you have the right plugin.The reason why Facebook and Windows 10 have billions of users isn't because they're technically better than alternatives. The UI of Facebook is one of the worst I've ever encountered.
(DIR) Post #2190411 by boneidol@indy.im
2018-12-21T21:59:56+00:00
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@kaniini no... forced growth through artificial input of energy is never sustainable, and just creates a new class of worker dedicated to finding that artificial input, the funding officer.