@atomicpoet @mmasnick @sienna What's the #fediverse solution for Patreon/payments? It seems like mailing lists and media publication of various formats are pretty well-supported or there's a somewhat obvious A->B path.

How content creators get paid for their work using open protocols feels very unclear to me, and creating trust and security around monetary transactions seems pretty critical. Is there an existing answer besides "use Stripe/PayPal/Venmo/Patreon"?

@f00fc7c8 @mekkaokereke
It seems certain to me that Twitter is going to enter a death spiral of instability - Musk knows nothing about software and has nobody to keep him in check there.

He's killed his ability to replace engineers. Nobody qualified to work on distributed networks at Twitter scale needs to work for Musk.

If they don't fully feature-freeze, it's going to cause outages, and every outage is another prod to leave. If a handful of really big names leave, leaving will go viral.

@sparseMatrix @h_albermann @eirliani @austinkocher @Mastodon
I am admittedly new here, but I am skeptical of "it hasn't been a problem yet" as a statement, let alone as a guarantee against future problems.

If the #fediverse grows to the point where it is even remotely as socially relevant as birdsite, it will be a target for bad actors, and the expectation that instance-local admins will respond effectively to coordinated bad actors feels quite optimistic.

@simon_brooke I think the presumption that someone pointing out an issue is responsible for fixing it is not helpful, nor is the insinuation that they are somehow coercing others by pointing it out. I think that people should contribute to solutions as they are able, whether financially or via their labor.

People often fail to do that, but I don't think it justifies telling people who request features or point out problems to do it themselves or shut up as an immediate response.