Notices by Pelle Wessman (voxpelli@mastodon.social), page 3

@dansup List of what for what? Is that GDPR compliant? 🤔

@dansup @pixelfed Is this using the non-standard #MastodonAPI or a standard like #IndieAuth or #OpenIDConnect? https://www.w3.org/TR/indieauth/

Today’s #FollowFriday:

- @decius for his work on https://news.feedseer.com/, an excellent personal aggregation of one’s feed
- @pfefferle for his great and persistent work on #Fediverse / #DiSo / #IndieWeb plug-ins for #WordPress over the last decade(?) which recently landed him a job at Automattic

@pfefferle @richardazia @will 100% Node, 0% React 😜

@pfefferle @richardazia @will I’m slowly working myself back to the DiSo scene 😎

@richardazia That @pfefferle guy has been doing it for way longer than Mastodon, probably twice as long, he is pretty awesome at it 😜 (Is @will still also working on some of the WP-stuff?)

@darth @killyourfm Liquid in open container on laptop 🥶🥶🥶

@pfefferle Very nice! And well deserved ?

@pfefferle Congrats! Will it be WordPress, Tumblr, Fediverse or something else that you will be focusing at? ?

This is for sure the biggest challenge that eg @opencollective, @stackaid and others faces:

How to get people to accept money and (especially for #OpenCollective) how to then get them to make use of that money in a constructive way that makes it become a catalyst for an already successful project.

@tidelift kind of has their story clear here. They sign up maintainers for support to keep their packages safe and they sell those agreements packaged up with indemnification insurance to companies.

One of the big takeaways from when we built Flattr almost a decade ago is:

It can be harder to get people to accept money than to get people to give money.

If one believe money to be important in creating eg a sustainable open source movement, then one needs to work at least as hard on getting people to accept and use money as on getting people to spend that money.

This is especially important to create a positive self-reinforcing loop where all actors can see the benefits in practice.

A late #FollowFriday:

This week, let’s share services that helps you give back to the OSS community at large:

- @stackaid - like Flattr it works with a fixed monthly fee of your choice which it then splits between all first and second level dependencies of your projects
- @opencollective - a site through which you can donate to projects, but more importantly, a structure that can host the money of OSS projects
- @tidelift - like @stackaid but adds legal protection and is geared at enterprises

@clacke @stackaid I really like it! And while it may look like it’s JS only it actually isn’t, they launched more support recently: https://www.stackaid.us/blog/now-supporting-go-python-rust-and-more

Here’s me on that platform: https://www.stackaid.us/github/voxpelli

I guess it’s pretty much GitHub only for now, but that’s okay with me ?

@clacke You donate through Stripe, this enables a site like StackAid to not have to deal with much of the money as it never leaves Stripe, they handle the forwarding from giver to receiver

@clacke They divide it across the dependencies of all the projects you register in it and if I remember correctly it adds your new GitHub projects automatically.

You can remove projects and filter out receivers.

Then it looks at the subdependencies and forwards part of the money to them.

And lastly it pays out to registered projects through Stripe or they try to find the projects on GitHub Sponsors or OpenCollective and forward the money there.

If they can’t, that money gets redistributed.

@clacke The laws around money transfers are such a pain, it was one of the biggest challenges we had when we built Flattr back in the day, so it’s great that Stripe has enabled innovation there now through https://stripe.com/connect

@clacke Hopefully @stackaid can address these concerns!

Here you can see their action on @opencollective: https://opencollective.com/stackaid

@evan Define “meaningful”

@evan @debirdify Only works if I want to follow everyone here.
The feed here is different and people post here differently. I feel like importing +1000 accounts here will just make Mastodon useless to me, filling it up with stuff I actually don’t care about.

@evan @debirdify The one thing I’m missing from the @debirdify style services is a way to hide the ones I already follow on Mastodon. Is service doing anything like that?
Extra bonus if it can also remember which ones I have decided to not follow on Mastodon.
Right now it feels hard to find the ones that have added the link since one last ran the tool.