Thank you, Mastodon community!
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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
