Would anyone be interested in hiring/sponsoring me to build a custom registration flow for Mastodon which supports collecting payments for the account.

[tchambers@indieweb.social]

@thisismissem Maybe @newsmast might be up to build this into Patchwork fork?

[tuffypuff@jorts.horse]

@thisismissem why would you want to introduce capitalism into a fedi server. I can think of quite a few ways this can go terribly wrong.

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@cocoafrog could always do a free trial — also it's more to prove it works during signup

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@cocoafrog unfortunately it can't be done through centralised payment processing, unless using stripe connect, but you basically don't wanna be operating anything considered a marketplace

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@tchambers @newsmast doesn't need modifications to mastodon, just uses the APIs

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@TuffyPuff because you want a way to make your server more sustainable financially & be able to pay moderators and devs/ops

[tuffypuff@jorts.horse]

@thisismissem I wrote a probably misguided tirade, which I will put in a reply to this post. Really I am just really frustrated with how capitalism destroys everything it touches, and this has the smell of capitalism's fetid hands touching the Fediverse.

[cocoafrog@hachyderm.io]

@thisismissem Right, I can imagine there’d be a lot of pain in making this not look wrong to all kinds of regulation and rules.

[mattb@hachyderm.io]

@cocoafrog @thisismissem Missed that. Got a link? Need to know if I should increase my donation.

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@TuffyPuff this is a tool intended to be run by collectives and co-ops, its not designed for-profit, and tbh you'd have a hard sell going that route

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@mattb @cocoafrog costs are about $0.30 / active user / month, without paid staff

[cocoafrog@hachyderm.io]

@mattb @thisismissem here is a calculation with paid staff, which I found more reflective of sustainable financing: https://hachyderm.io/@esk/113793277371908181

[mrchrisadams@mastodon.social]

@thisismissem I think this would be a really good idea. The idea of paying money for stuff is good thing, and even in Star Trek people occasionally use money to pay for stuff.

Have you looked into grant applications at all? A prototype fund grant as freelancer in Germany is what started me off rebooting $WORKPLACE into a thing that employs ppl now.

Opening up the Green Web Foundation - Green Web Foundation

We've spent 10 years building a database in the world that tracks which parts of the internet use which kinds of power. Now were opening it for you to use.

Green Web Foundation (www.thegreenwebfoundation.org)

[mrchrisadams@mastodon.social]

@thisismissem

TBH, knowing there was a clear way to pay to support the service that was nicely integrated into it from the get go would make me *more* likely to want to join the Hachyderm instance.

This is because I’d feel like there was a lower chance of me to having to plan a disruptive migration when it runs out of money.

I pay a token amount to Mastodon.social but until you shared the numbers in another post I didn’t realise how expensive running a biggish instance might be per user.

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@mrchrisadams this isn't something I'd consider doing a grant for; have tonnes of other stuff that needs grants with higher priority (I am currently working on an NLNet grant)

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@mrchrisadams you definitely don't need to worry about us running out of money. There is also the opencollective for Nivenly membership

[newsmast@newsmast.social]

@thisismissem @tchambers

Hi Emelia, we'd definitely be interested in talking more about this idea - it sounds great!

We'll send you a DM.

[tchambers@indieweb.social]

@newsmast @thisismissem Love to see collaboration like this spring up!