mhoyeJan 25, 2025
Spending thirty million dollars to somehow force bluesky to interoperate with a copy of itself while people are out here connecting C64s, AA-powered PalmPilots, aquarium pumps and toothbrushes to the Fediverse is definitely an entire idea.
Show threadWTLJan 25, 2025
@mhoye @gnomon Can you imagine pumping 30 million dollars into Mastodon, Pixelfed, and the others?
Show threadBen Zanin
@WTL @mhoye I could see that funding three years of stable administration and moderation for 30 instances serving a few hundred users apiece, which I suspect would do this network a world of good completely apart from improving a single line of code
Jan 25, 2025 at 2:41amTusky
Show threadmhoyeJan 25, 2025
@gnomon @WTL I could see it building out federated moderation tooling and paying for moderation services instances could subscribe to for a few years, yeah. Not whatever this is.
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jan 26, 2025
@gnomon @WTL @mhoye If someone wanted to spend that money, I’d rather spend it teaching government and news media IT departments how to run their own instances.
Show threadWTLJan 26, 2025
@david_chisnall @gnomon @mhoye Outreach would certainly be a good use for some of the money.