Post AaOehXWywdSWJSidl2 by osiris@mastodon.nu
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 (DIR) Post #AaOTBrdnXfWXv7bIDg by finestructure@mastodon.social
       2023-10-03T12:13:00Z
       
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       Operating •and• developing Mastodon on this budget is nothing short of amazing.It’s also unsustainable and we should make sure we don’t just pay for our third party Mastodon clients but donate to the core project.https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/10/annual-report-2022
       
 (DIR) Post #AaOdz4emw8Xg1IAReq by kaia@brotka.st
       2023-10-03T14:59:28.104627Z
       
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       @finestructure Eugen gets 3000 a minute????? :smugcat: /j
       
 (DIR) Post #AaOehXWywdSWJSidl2 by osiris@mastodon.nu
       2023-10-03T15:07:13Z
       
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       @kaia @finestructure Obviously notIt's SI units.So 3000 per meter.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaOenLwGxNaw69Jv9s by meowski@fluf.club
       2023-10-03T15:08:35.158963Z
       
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       @finestructure what is a "third party Mastodon client" here on the Mastodon Network we do not acknowledge other clients (you can't see this)
       
 (DIR) Post #AaPLy92xWf47KPqAF6 by wjmaggos@liberal.city
       2023-10-03T23:12:15Z
       
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       @finestructure we need a decentralized donation system that we can tie into all these services. small donations from millions of people to FOSS developers and open access content creators will change the world.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaQQ3JphRcfXCgJxaK by Selena@ivoor.eu
       2023-10-04T11:32:30Z
       
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       @wjmaggos @finestructure It would be nice to have a reliable easy-to-use #patreon alternative. Patreon has been great for years, but they took on way too much VC-money so inevitably they've come under pressure to find ways to squeeze a higher profit out of the creator/patron interaction (when most people using it just want it to be a place that facilitates 'sending $$ every month to a creator I like', and only keeping a small transaction fee for themselves)
       
 (DIR) Post #AaQVbJlCihnUayFWe8 by njan@chaos.social
       2023-10-04T12:07:16Z
       
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       @Selena @wjmaggos @finestructure There‘s https://opencollective.com/mastodon :) There one can even pay a one-time-sum — or monthly. I‘m not 100% sure that it’s really ending up in the hands of Mastodon, though, as it’s not named on the official donation page. @Gargron, can you confirm if that opencollective account is a legit one?
       
 (DIR) Post #AaQVbKn0tSq3ms6U6a by wjmaggos@liberal.city
       2023-10-04T12:34:43Z
       
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       @njan @Selena @finestructure @Gargron better than nothing but they are both centralized services and not FOSS. what I'm imagining is something like a new protocol ala #ActivityPub but for money transfer. people freely give out their Bitcoin address. we should be able to do that with something like myaccount@mybank.com. no need for crypto. just plug that into your banking app, set an amount and decide if it's recurring or not. or even better, tie it into reader/player apps that auto distribute.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaQaTgPn6eoAJNPdVQ by silverpill@mitra.social
       2023-10-04T13:28:35.209250Z
       
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       @wjmaggos @finestructure @Selena @njan @Gargron>a new protocol ala \#ActivityPub but for money transferAn extended version of ActivityPub can easily support economic transactions. I published a specification for such protocol here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/0837/fep-0837.md, and it can be used to build things like eBay and Patreon, but federated. It also can be used in conjunction with traditional (non-crypto) financial services, though in that case the system won't be really decentralized.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaQcisxAyFJ9S1P9ge by wjmaggos@liberal.city
       2023-10-04T13:54:42Z
       
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       @silverpill @finestructure @Selena @njan @Gargron thank you. can you elaborate on your last sentence? because something like #FedNow would need to be involved? it would be much better than what we have now, right?
       
 (DIR) Post #AaQk29sEz6ff6sEXAW by silverpill@mitra.social
       2023-10-04T15:15:35.919338Z
       
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       @wjmaggos Yes, something like FedNow or Stripe... But I agree that a self-hosted instance that depends on such API is better than a monolithic platform like Patreon.@finestructure @Selena @njan @Gargron