Jeff JarvisNov 25, 2022
With Twitter's collapse, funders should start helping build up federated discourse: supporting development of better security, of moderation aids, of proposals for affordances welcoming to Black Twitter and other communities. Stop thinking top down. Start thinking emergent.
Stop thinking about how to help newspapers. Start thinking about how to help communities and culture speaking for themselves. This is a place to start.
Show threadDr Jim RawsonNov 25, 2022
@jeffjarvis Are there specific non-profit organizations that foundations could support across the Fediverse to advance the issues you raise? Thanks
Show threadStrypey

Good question @DrJimRawson . The way funding tends to happen in non-commercial open source development is that funding organizations serve as rain barrels. Funders drop rain dollars into those barrels, and they give as many projects groups a drink as they can, depending how much rain has fallen that year. In a sense, it doesn't matter which open source org funds go to, as long as those funds they're clearly earmarked for fediverse development.

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@jeffjarvis @vicuzumeri

Nov 25, 2022 at 6:05pmWeb
Show threadStrypeyNov 25, 2022

One approach would be to talk to the developers of fediverse software, past and present,@vicuzumeri
(most of them are here somewhere), and ask which organizations they got funding through. Some of the funders I'm aware of include NLNet:
https://nlnet.nl/propose/

... and the Next Generation Internet fund in the EU:
https://www.ngi.eu/

There's a list of resources here about funding free code, assembled by folks active here:
https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-funding/

@DrJimRawson @jeffjarvis @vicuzumeri

NLnet; Apply for a grant

Show threadVic UzumeriNov 25, 2022

@strypey @DrJimRawson @jeffjarvis

All good ideas. I am just some rando guy in Toronto, so my ideas are just that ... ideas.

But if just 2 or 3 connected movers and shakers got organized (that may already be happening), the problem is not a particularly difficult one.

The money should be available. The motivation in the tech industry is palpable. I'm betting there are some top flight devs and designers that would consider projects in this space to be Missions from God (in the Blues Brothers sense).