Thank you, Mastodon community!
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@Mastodon so because X will become an 'everything app' (doubt it), there is need at mastodon to hire a fulltime lead programmer that works on moderation tools and blocklist support?
If those features are indeed so underdeveloped, won't it be much more apt to organise summer of code style initiatives or feature pledges rather than job positions? Now it is just asking for company growth because X bad.
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The Yangsi Michael Dillonreplied to Mastodon on last edited by
@Mastodon You're a business. Just hire someone for that position. Why are you crowdfunding for something so essential to your "moderation practice"
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@oddly As a former GSoC mentor and GCI admin, I can tell you it's a lot of work. The Mastodon project has limited capacity, I doubt they'd manage at the moment; maybe in a few years from now. (Looking at the backlog of issues and open patches, it's getting better.)
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GunChleocreplied to The Yangsi Michael Dillon on last edited by
@anantagd They are crowdfunding so that they cannot only "Just" hire someone, but actually pay them.
What else do you want them to do, VC funding and Ads?
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@Mastodon Done.
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@nemobis thank you for the info, that is really interesting. Would such a position need to be filled permanently or is the asked amount so high bc of one-time costs?
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Renaud Chaputreplied to The Yangsi Michael Dillon on last edited by
@anantagd Mastodon is not a business, it is a non-profit that develops the software, and it relies on donations to hire people to work full-time on the project. The money needs to come from somewhere, and in our case, this is donations.
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@rvcx As a non-profit, most of our revenue comes from donations. We provide a free service, and a free (as in Open Source) software, so I am not sure what other model could work here, but I am interested if you have alternatives to suggest!
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The Yangsi Michael Dillonreplied to Renaud Chaput on last edited by
@renchap I worked for non profits, they behave like businesses. They don't run on volunteers but on salaried staffers. Bye then
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Renaud Chaputreplied to The Yangsi Michael Dillon on last edited by
@anantagd I am not sure I understand your point here. We are not looking for a volunteer, but to hire a full time person as a Trust & Safety lead, similar to how we have multiple full-time developers?
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@renchap @rvcx have you seen the KDE donation notification? Basically, KDE added a notification that appears once a year (and can be disabled) asking for donations, and it dramatically increased donation revenue: https://youtu.be/5vivHquoiAc
Unfortunately, these notifications work best in December and by the time all the instances update it probably would’ve already past. Still, for next year I think it’s worth considering
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@eb @rvcx we started building a similar feature in our official mobile apps, and are looking to build it for web, but it is a bit more complex because we don’t want to cut out the instance admins from donations so we would like to have a way for their user to donate to both the software project and their instance
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@Mastodon you censored me just fine without instituting position creation
