I use Bluesky and Mastodon. Mastodon better hits where I want the fediverse to go but Bluesky is so much easier to use. Signup, UI, flagship app, feeds, and content is just so much less of a headache. But it feels like it’s a matter of time before it’s enshittified.

I was thinking about how much I hate big tech but there’s a lot of small and mid-size companies that I have neutral to positive views on. Canonical, Mozilla, 37 Signals, Odoo are the ones that come to mind. All of those have a revenue model but also actively support open source initiatives and developers. None are perfect but better than “big tech” and get more done than just donation based development.

It feels like there needs to be some for-profit companies (without ads and maintaining privacy) that can help support the development around ActivityPub and maintain apps and servers that are easier to onboard and easier to use. Does this exist?

What could be some non-evil revenue models? I pay $20/month for a blogging platform for my business website. Maybe have a service to host AP servers for businesses or journalists? Personal private encrypted cloud services like photo backups that are integrated with AP?

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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      18 days ago

      I mean we’ve determined what a living wage is, right?

      …have we?

            • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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              18 days ago

              Buddy theres no song and dance unless it’s the one you’re doing where you’re refusing to answer basic questions about things you’ve said.

                • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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                  18 days ago

                  I don’t know why you’re treating me like a piece of shit for nothing more than trying to understand more about the words you wrote but I suppose I’ll stop doing that.

                • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
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                  17 days ago

                  I don’t see why you’re being so hostile to him. I also didn’t know this about a livable wage. I didn’t know we were doing studies on it and thought that it actually referred to a subsistence wage.

                  I would actually usually say I don’t like the term livable wage and think we should say “respectable wage” instead. It looks like they mean the same thing, though.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Is it really that difficult to think we can financially quantify people’s roles?

      In a centrally-planned system? Yes, it is very hard.

      I was a freelancer for 15 years, I had to quantify jobs constantly.

      I assume you mean that you had to give a quote to a client?

      If that is the case, your client has sole decision-making power and has “only” to evaluate whether the price you were asking for your labor is lower than the value you’d be bringing them.

      How does this compare with a coop, where (presumably) the member-owners have all to agree on the price of labor? Are they going to accept to pay market rate for the people working there? Are they first find whoever is willing to work for the cheapest and then set the price on that?