I'd sure love to pay a tech co-op $25/month to host and sync a knowledge-workers stack including an open-source read-later + Obsidian or equivalent + Zotero + simple blogging with blot or something

[kissane@mas.to]

I'd sure love to pay a tech co-op $25/month to host and sync a knowledge-workers stack including an open-source read-later + Obsidian or equivalent + Zotero + simple blogging with blot or something

[aratinga@xoxo.zone]

@kissane I JUST GOT THE CRAZIEST IDEA FOR A VC BACKED STARTUP!

[kissane@mas.to]

Today's screams brought to you by Omnivore (open source) giving its entire hosted userbase two weeks to get their data out before they exuberantly drown themselves in the service of an Andreessen Horowitz-funded AI voice company co-founded by a Palantir person.

https://blog.omnivore.app/p/omnivore-is-joining-elevenlabs

(The two weeks' notice went to my spam folder, so I'm grateful someone mentioned it here and I happened to see it.)

[kissane@mas.to]

@aratinga :blobcatsweat:

[sarraceniawilds@sunny.garden]

@kissane lol what the hell

[kissane@mas.to]

Like I will WORK MY SHIFT AT THE CO-OP, I will wear a dusty apron and triage git issues and restock the produce, that would be the dream, but also if I can't have that I would just pay money.

[kissane@mas.to]

@SarraceniaWilds I only send a mean email like once every two or three years but I sent a mean-ass email

[dsalo@digipres.club]

@kissane Yeah, that would be awesome. The issue, I suspect, is the disconnect between CPanel-type apps and those that need *spit* Docker or similar.

I'm currently kinda frustrated with the WordPress situation because my hosting is CPanel-type and the app selection is Not Great, Bob. To do better I'd have to move to the pricier, DIY-ier Docker service.

[beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com]

@kissane man w h a t

[randomgeek@hackers.town]

@beep @kissane Am suddenly very glad I kept forgetting to use Omnivore.

[kissane@mas.to]

@beep Imagine, if you will, a guillotine, but very large

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@kissane 100% this!

If I can’t have a co-op, then at least give me a small company made of real people, who will charge a reasonable price to provide the services they promised.

No hockey-stick growth bullshit. Just service in exchange for money.

[kissane@mas.to]

@dsalo oh for real, half the operating budget would go to media storage and the other half to The Docker Wrangling Comrades

[everyplace@mastodon.social]

@kissane I LOVE the idea of PSFC-style collective volunteering except applied to time-based knowledge work to support a platform. Not the open source contributor. Not the volunteer knowledge expert in a forum. Actual on-the-clock work. 2h 45m shifts for:
- customer support
- editing
- documentation
- testing
- monitoring
- etc

What is the coveted “cheese cutter” shift? The morning cleaning crew that no one wants but gives 2x the credits? Child care?

[laurenshof@indieweb.social]

@kissane its truly such a bummer

[kissane@mas.to]

@laurenshof Flames! On the side of my face!

[damon@social.wedistribute.org]

@kissane
Was talking with Laurens about this as we are both users. SMH this is disappointing

[jehb@mastodon.social]

@kissane Replying both because ME TOO, and my hope that if anyone else in the comments wants to try to make this in happen, that they get in touch.

I have experience with both worker/consumer co-ops and evaluating and hosting open source software, and I would love to help make this a reality.

[ryan@social.lol]

@kissane I got this email today and every sentence made me want to scream louder. 🫠 Thankfully I didn't embed myself *too* deeply into Omnivore but it's so frustrating how much of its marketing and pitch was built on... not doing this

[kissane@mas.to]

@ryan Yep, they sold very hard on being exactly not this. I have rarely wanted so viscerally to egg someone's house.