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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 18:27:26 JST Aral Balkan

   If you don’t support alternative technology you won’t get alternative technology.

   The people who build the alternatives have to afford a roof over their heads and food on the table too.

   https://getsession.org/donate

   (On a related matter, Small Technology Foundation gets under €400/month in donations – https://small-tech.org/fund-us. Thank you to everyone who contributes but I don’t think anyone believes this is in any way enough for us to survive. Instead I’ve had to sell two family homes we had in Turkey and now Laura contracts in the mainstream while I work on getting the Small Web ready for this year. This is how little support we have. It is, quite frankly, appalling when you think that the shittiest startup ideas regularly get $5M in VC and I wouldn’t recommend doing what we do to my worst enemy, much less to a recent graduate who wants to work in ethical tech.)

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   Laura Kalbag (laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 04:11:43 JST Laura Kalbag

   in reply to

   Mega thanks to @aral for getting the site up and running for me. It uses Kitten! Small Technology Foundation are now the publishers of Accessibility For Everyone, and you can support our teeny tiny not-for-profit organisation at https://small-tech.org/fund-us

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 17:57:26 JST Aral Balkan

   “I really like the Small Web. Thanks for NOT supporting it.”

   https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/

   (We tried one more time after that, got rejected again, and then stopped wasting time with @nlnet and @NGIZero. The Small Web will launch this year with ZERO EU funding in its six years of development from NGI/NLNet. If you want to support us before it does, please see https://small-tech.org/fund-us. After we launch, we aim for it to be self sustaining. So NGI/NLNet have been and are irrelevant as far as the Small Web is concerned.)

   https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115940504761958251

   #SmallWeb #SmallTech #EU #funding #FOSS #OpenSource #EUpol #OpenSourceSustainability #NextGenerationInternet #NGI #NLNet #SmallTechnologyFoundation

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 00:19:57 JST Aral Balkan

   Folks, just a heads up: I’m busily coding a Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal site so that we can raise one amount that will get all our remaining families in the danger zone in the North to safety in the South.

   I’m adapting the donation form I’d made for us at Small Technology Foundation (https://small-tech.org/fund-us – don’t worry about donations to us at the moment, eye on the ball, folks!)

   Joy’s busy compiling the list of Gaza Verified families that are still stuck in the North and the monies they need to get to the South.

   We’re going to add those up and set a total amount and then push that out with a campaign similar to the one I ran last night. I could really use your help once that starts to spread the word and help out if you can.

   I don’t have the exact number of families off the top of my head right now (head in code mode) but it’s too many. Even one is too many. Anyway…

   So we’re going to collect the donations into our Small Technology Foundation account and then transfer them to everyone’s individual fundraisers. I’ve got that basic functionality running right now (it looks like crap but it’s running so I’m going to work on making the page look more appealing for the rest of the day).

   As much as I’d like to start the campaign tonight, realistically, it’s better if we start it tomorrow.

   Every night, though, is a chance that we will have fewer families to help…

   Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up. If you’re around tomorrow, I could use your help in spreading the word.

   Thank you all so much for showing our Gaza Verified family so much love already.

   I think I’ll be able to breath a little easier once the remaining families in the North are safely in the South.

   💕

   #GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #fediAid #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 04:15:51 JST Aral Balkan

   @mc Thank you :)

   💕

   We have our own funding page for the not-for-profit but please don’t feel oblidged to. The kind words are more than enough :)

   https://small-tech.org/fund-us

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 18:24:28 JST Aral Balkan

   I mean, we* got nothing from it anyway but still…

   * https://small-tech.org/fund-us https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112806759307200576