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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • If everyone had to pay $10-20 per year, no there is no way this would be sustainable in a million years.

    However, I am personally definitely willing to contribute $10-20 to fediverse communities/projects. If I have the spending money, I am willing to contribute way more, I believe in this place and understand the threat of not having free, diverse, at least semi-decentralized spaces.

    I think making people pay will only ever work along the “to each according to their means” model, there are too many people from too many vastly different socio-economic situations to suggest some kind of blanket cost. Ok, so I can afford it but what about someone who doesn’t live in the same country as me with entirely different wages and cost of living costs?

    No, it doesn’t work, but asking for donations with a suggested amount I think is a perfectly valid way to fund fediverse communities and I will absolutely contribute that much.









  • Where is your evidence of this?

    Everywhere? Every decade humankind becomes more uniform worldwide, but especially last few decades.

    What? Do you not listen to music? Or enjoy art? Do you not watch theater or tv? Do you not enjoy going to local craft shows and seeing local artists? No matter what happens in the 2000s, the 1900s will be remembered as one of the most artistically prolific, free and diverse periods of human expression and art. Yeah there is censorship, yes western culture is very conservative in ways it doesn’t want to admit sometimes, but in general the shear volume and variety of art created in the 1900s is immense.