Post #2637980
2026-04-18 00:06 UTC
@andymouse@todon.eu you're more optimistic than I am there (especially seeing how few donations arrive at our OpenCollective/Liberapay; we basically get much less than 1 Euro per hour work invested, and I bet most other projects are in a similar situation; though we do not do this for money, it helps us keep going, and we have bills to pay) – but I wish you are correct! 🤞 @theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social
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@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social 2026-04-18 00:22
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social I think the next front in FOSS is figuring out how to make it financially stable. We simply aren't going to get where we are trying to go unless we can start convincing people to fund FOSS over paying for SaaS. I honestly don't know the solution, but honestly Izzy, I think everyone that works with you being able to get paid to work full time on this stuff would be a perfectly reasonable ask. I think the tools need to get way more accessible for that to happen though. @andymouse@todon.eu