@thisismissem @mekkaokereke @Badgardener do you have any other source of income besides the grants and donations?

@thisismissem @mekkaokereke @Badgardener that’s very selfless and brave of you to do that. I sincerely hope you find some stable financing soon!

@thisismissem @mekkaokereke @Badgardener Good to know! Thanks for your work! I think Mastodon should pay people like you, though. I know it’s also hard for them to raise money, but still easier than for you I’d guess.

@mekkaokereke @Badgardener @thisismissem I think it’s more about finding a good revenue model that does not compromise the longer term viability of building an open network vs. people being anti getting paid. There are successful examples of this being done with donations as the main revenue source, such as Wikipedia.

I am not sure how other revenue models can generate significant revenue without excluding people who can’t pay? Do you have examples?

@molly0xfff @josgeluk so the issue is that if somebody orders both products, they get the summed shipping price?

@molly0xfff @josgeluk you might not need the custom shipping rates functionality for this. Maybe you can do a work around with a discount. I have tinkered around with custom Shopify apps a bit in the past years. If you want I can have a look and see if there’s a custom code solution without needing to upgrade your Shopify plan. Hard to say without more info. Feel free to send me a more detailed description to [email protected]

@galactus @evan @Mushi It’s very simple. Just look at the facts: there’s one Bluesky service with all their 13 million users on it, and there are thousands of Mastodon servers. No need for technical discussions and what-ifs. If quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and all that…

@evan Brilliant, no notes