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How does Onlyfans models earn thousands and in some cases millions per month, meanwhile a lot of opensource developers earn less than 1000$ per month?

https://lemmus.org/post/20851889

Mar 15 at 6:52amWeb
Show threadJeenaMar 15
Supply and demand. There are so many editors out there and only few who need one.
Show threadRobinMar 15
Well there’s a plentiful supply of nudes on the internet as well. OF models market themselves so that it feels like you’re paying for a scarse resource.
Show threadJeenaMar 15
Yeah, those few who are successfully there are very good at marketing I guess.
Show threadZigguratMar 15
How many porn actress and football player earn millions? Pretty sure most of them don’t reach the minimal wage
Show threadred_tomatoMar 15
Access to OF content is behind a paywall. Paying for open source software is voluntary.
Show threadmariusMar 15
Maybe developers should livestream and when you donate they name a variable after you or something
Show threadMoonManKipperMar 15

Also Onlyfans economics follows a power law - so like 5 of the models will be wildly popular and making a fortune, most won’t. Like bands, actors and similar.

So throw a few dollars at your favourite open source projects

Show threadTommySodaMar 15
Because more people care about porn than open source software.
Show threadpmkMar 15
Is there perhaps an opportunity here for a hybrid model? OnlyFOSS? We could involve the unixsocks community, and either we subscribe to see them code (free) software, or, we pay with free code to get access to someone talking about mechanical keyboards and minimalist tiling wms etc. Or, there could be a platform like gofundme where projects could have wishlists of what they need, programmers can name a price, and people can fund it. There’s a risk that the “boring” parts get ignored though, like infrastructure maintenance or code review, in favor of flashy new features like quarter tiling in gnome or wobbly windows?
Show threadPhoenixzMar 15

I could make a joke about one having better boobs but…

Look, it’s porn. People want porn. If they use open source software, there is a very good chance that they’re using it to get porn.

Given the chance to pay 50 dollars for bewbs, or 50 dollar for some obscure feature… That’s an easy choice for many. There are few nerds out there like me that would choose different

On the bright side: most open source developers are still doing it for the love, even if we need the paid ones