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“Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism (wedistribute.org)
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The Mastodon For Harris campaign has raised close to $500,000 within two weeks of being live. It is probably the largest attempt for political organizing on the Fediverse, and may provide a playbook for other efforts going forward.

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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's incredible how little people spend on free software :(

I used to have a dream of developing free software and launched a couple of big projects (thousands of github stars, millions of downloads) and no one fucking pays for anything no matter how easy you make it and how critical your software is to them.

To give some perspective - some Youtubers earn same amount annually from Patreon than both Gnome and KDE yearly budgets combined (which is ~3M usd).

I realized that the only way to fund something is to make people pay either through early releases, insider programs or something that forces the credit card form on them. That's the only way.

this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
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