“How to fund fedi” is an important, valid question.

“Use DAOs/cryptocurrencies to fund fedi” is a completely wrong answer.

And completely unacceptable.

This. 👆 👆 👆

Honestly, I know we hate this practice in video games but it could actually help federation.

No it could not. It would just lead to capture by cryptobro libertarians.

Donate $5 to keep fediverse instance running? :drake_no:

Why not? What’s wrong with donating for things?

Buy $5 profile border that looks like it was ripped from GeoCities? :drake_yes:

Which can totally be done with no bollockschain involved what-so-ever.

What keeps a core team around over the years, most of the time, isn’t giving a shit.

It absolutely is.

Of course money is important and we need to support our communities, infrastructures, and so on, but if it’s money is what’s keeping a person working on a thing, they will get a better offer and move on. Like all the cryptobros who’d been pushing web3/DAO crap for years and now switched to pushing AI hype without batting an eye.

Or they will start exploiting their project for profit, to the detriment of the community, as we’ve seen with so, so many DAO-based cryptocurrency projects.

Absolutely not. Cryptobros showed that the whole cryptocurrency scene is either in on the scams or at least not bothered by them. Just consider Web3 Is Doing Great: for every promise “web3”/DAO people make, there is at least one story there how “web3”/DAO does not deliver and cannot deliver.

Here are some additional resources about why any suggestions of cryptocurrency/NFT/web3/DAO-related actions need to be pushed back on with full force:

• https://doctorow.medium.com/moneylike-d20f8279a72e
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
• https://strangematters.coop/web3-vs-fediverse-decentralized-internet/ (full disclosure, I wrote this one)

Cryptobros had all the time to build sustainable, equitable, decentralized communities, and failed to do so. Instead, they scammed a lot of people out of their money, and a lot of artists out of their work.

Letting them in on the federated social networking action is letting in foxes into the hen house.

Donations, Liberapay, etc are the right way to support these federated social spaces. DAOs and other cryptocurrency scams are absolutely, positively not the right way to support them. Relying on them will let cryptobros benefit financially from it, while destroying the movement.

I made a website for viewing and comparing versions of Wikipedia’s map of war in Ukraine:
https://projects.rys.io/ukrainvasion/

You can zoom, pan, and compare between two versions of the map to highlight the changes that happened between them. It gets auto-updated with fresh versions from Wikipedia every couple of hours. You can leave it in an open tab and it will reload every now and then to load the new versions.

And… it doesn’t use a single line of JavaScript, it’s all HTML and CSS (and some background scripts to fetch new versions).