Sab @sab@librem.one

@anantagd At least get your insults right, an open source fanatic would be a neckbeard, not a tech bro.

(With this comment I am willingly embracing the reply guy energy ❤️)

@anantagd @renchap You do not simply crowdfund, you.... ?

You find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

With a bunch of happy dancing leprechauns?

Or maybe we could try wishing it into existence?

Everything you see here is either volunteering or crowd funding. There is nothing more. There is no business idea.

And it couldn't be further from tech bros. If you are genuine in this criticism, we fundamentally agree in terms of values, but you fail to understand where you are.

While it must be frustrating at times, there is also something incredibly uplifting about how many people are using Mastodon seemingly without having the slightest idea about what open source is or how any of this works.

When I joined this platform it felt like 95% of the users were open source developers. That has certainly changed. And that's fantastic, despite some weird misunderstandings.

Thank you so much for taking so much time to communicate with the community, @renchap !
@rvcx

@anantagd @renchap (likewise, those who have talent & time to spare rather than money can donate their work, which is how open source has always worked. Sadly those of us without the time to contribute are often hesitant to match their contributions with our wallets, no matter how much we enjoy their service)

@anantagd @renchap And likewise Mastodon is looking to hire someone instead of depending on volunteers.

But paying wages costs money. Money needs to come from somewhere. Mastodon doesn't profit from its users or from ads or from selling data, so the source of that money is donations.

The more money people donate, the more they can hire staff.

If a non-profit has money to pay staff without donations, one should question where the money comes from and for what purpose.

Yeah, platform was a bad choice of word. But as the content travels through the protocol, it makes no more sense to say that the platform of this post is Lemmy than it does to say that the platform of an email is Gmail, even if it is received by users on other providers.

The platform in a strict sense is, to a degree, irrelevant. I guess it's platform agnostic. If we had to name one maybe it's the fediverse.

(I'm not sure I even federate without tags, so: @DarkThoughts @lookmomnodrugs )

I don't think the question is stupid at all, the answer is just relative. On my end, the answer is a clear YES: I am seeing this on Mastodon, I am responding on Mastodon, I have no obvious way of telling you're not on Mastodon.

If "this" refers to the site you're posting from, the answer is obviously no. If it refers to the site it appears on, the answer depends on the reader.

If the question refers to the platform, I guess it's neither Mastodon or Lemmy, but ActivityPub.
@lookmomnodrugs

@nemobis To be fair, social.librem.one is an unmaintained, unmoderated mess.

There are still some decent people around here, but only because they haven't realized how bad the situation is due to a lack of discoverability on the instance.

I wouldn't blame anyone for blocking it, and anyone left on the platform would be better off leaving.

I don't know about the other instances you mention.