For example: @alex is seeing security vulnerabilities in this Fediverse; foundations should fund development to close them.
Better yet: @shengokai makes forceful arguments for affordances necessary for the community of Black Twitter; foundations should fund that development.
Developers - e.g., @blaine & @davew - will gather 'round needs and ideas that are well-defined. Foundations and philanthropists can thereby support sustainable development of public discourse.

@alex @shengokai @blaine @davew And, no, I don't mean that foundations should fund instances--that that's fine; part of the idea of journa.host is to help community journalism support community conversation. No, I mean that foundations & philanthropists should support development: add to the open-source code bases of ActivityPub (& Scuttlebutt & Bluesky) to provide sustainable alternatives to the centralized, corporatized century of mass media & its successor, the attention economy online.

@alex @shengokai @blaine @davew Funders all t he time worry about the sustainability of what they fund. Well, as the Fediverse--not to mention Linux, WordPress, et al--demonstrate, open-source development is sustainable. Contribute to the greater whole and thereby support no end of enterprises that can make use of the functionality and networks that result. I hear that major news funders are meeting in January to debate joint strategy. They should--they must--adjust that strategy for federation!