@stux What's funny is that Truth Social is just a Mastodon fork with Alex Gleason's SoapBox frontend grafted back on.
SoapBox itself is a fork of Mastodon's own native single-column interface. Apparently, the dev couldn't get them to use anything other than Mastodon, which is pretty funny.
It’s kind of a weird write-up, but an interesting question came up in chat today: “Hey, Fediverse guys, what are some of your hobbies that don’t involve the Fediverse?”
I thought it might be nice to share a bunch of other things I’m passionate about, featuring a bunch of unfinished creative projects, from art to music to games.
Anyway, if anyone ever wants to collab on something, that would kind of be a really big deal to me? 🥺 👉 👈
We want to avoid common pitfalls media companies face: selling ads, selling "marketing data", and repackaging ads to look like articles.
Instead, we're looking at:
* Crowdfunding through Patreon and OpenCollective * Grants from entities like The Knight Foundation * Sponsorships * Selling awesome merch * Selling access to "Premium" articles, which always switch back to regular articles 3 months after publication.
We're also considering some other venues, like producing / selling educational courses for Fediverse development. Purely ideas at this point, nothing set in stone.
I am working to establish my long-term hobby into a proper 501c3 Non Profit, with the goal of taking tax-deductible donations, sponsorships, grants, and premium subscription sales to raise funds and pay people: writers, artists, audio engineers, and more.
There's a lot to figure out still, but we're hoping to do a big crowdfunding push soon!
@msw A similar thing happened with Sentry (former employer) leaning into the Business Source License.
All I can really say is that SaaS and Open Source do not always lead to a happy outcome. Things got really gross there over time, even the product is a kludge covered in "upgrade to enterprise to use this!" features.
Somewhat ridiculous. The clump of brain cells responsible for We Distribute, VidCommons, and Brands.Town. Goofy but lovable, passionate about many things.