Geoff Campbell

@ianb@mastodon.well.com OK, that's good.

We're still hosed. The ecosystem doesn't care about country borders, either.

@ianb@mastodon.well.com Global CO2 emissions. Remember that we've outsourced a lot of our own CO2 emissions by moving manufacturing oveseas.

@ianb@mastodon.well.com The problem is, the ecosystem doesn't recognise per capita levels.

OK, so I closed my TwiX account, as I should have done months or years ago.
Still can't find a hook to get into Mastodon or Bluesky. Is there a cheat-sheet somewhere that maps concepts across the systems?

@badgergravling@mastodon.social @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @aurynn@cloudisland.nz Oh, yes, I'd forgotten about Flattr. Not been paying attention, if I'm honest.

@badgergravling@mastodon.social @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @aurynn@cloudisland.nz Sorry, got sidetracked. This working for a living thing sucks... I would argue that we haven't tried proper micro-payments yet. Patreon and the like are far too focused, far too requiring of coraling and managing. I want to be able to browse around the Internet, paying perhaps a few pence for each article I read or video I watch with near-zero intervention. The mechanics of getting that running without the possibility of abuse are *hard*.

@aurynn There needs to be a happy middle ground. Without advertising, nothing gets funded. I wish it wasn't so, no doubt you also wish it wasn't so, but unfortunately it is so. The decision was made back in the '90s that we wanted a free Internet funded by ads. 1/3