Raphael Lullis (@raphael@communick.com)
mastodon.communick.com
So, it is really hard for me to share personal things online, but I need to get out of my comfort zone: I was fired from my day job last week and now I need to figure out if I should double down on communick.com or I should keep it as side-project and look for another job. I will make a series of polls to see if there is any viable business. Please boost for visibility.

I believe that the Fediverse can and should be more than a niche thing for those that reject Big Tech.

I also believe that to get there we will need businesses, service providers and professional developers who work on it because they are motivated by more than just “community values” and goodwill. For example, I have quite a bit experience with distributed systems and I know I could work to make Lemmy federation more efficient, but I can only do that if I can secure a stable income.

Please follow the linked Mastodon thread and vote on the polls. The idea is to find out if there are enough people willing to pay for services that can ease their pains with Mastodon/Lemmy/Matrix.

  • @rglullisOPAEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    You do know you can’t make money out of any fediverse software

    this very thing would go against the TOS of Mastodon, Peertube, and other fediverse software

    you cannot legally add premium features or recommendation algorithms to already existing fediverse software or any fork of it.

    You are making things up or you don’t understand how the AGPL works. There is no “TOS” for the fediverse software.

    Don’t believe me? Go ask the Mastodon devs themselves if there is anything irregular/illegal about any of the things I am working on or proposing.

    push profiles for you to see (…) contradiction with an option on one of your polls

    Recommending profiles to follow is already part of the onboarding process, and is not in any way equivalent to “pushing profiles for you to see”.

    Look, I really tried to keep an open mind about this conversation, but now you are distorting the truth and I can’t tell if it’s for ignorance or dishonesty. I think it’s time to end it. Have a nice one.

    • RetronautickzEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      Recommending profiles to follow is already part of the onboarding process, and is not in any way equivalent to “pushing profiles for you to see”.

      So, if its already possible. What would your freemium features add?

      There is no “TOS” for the fediverse software.

      Each software has, in fact, its rules/terms. Peertube, for example, is explicitly non-profit.

      Look, I really tried to keep an open mind about this conversation, but now you are distorting the truth and I can’t tell if it’s for ignorance or dishonesty. I think it’s time to end it. Have a nice one.

      To me what you are doing trying to monetise something that is completely free of charge, while pretending you are doing it to promote the fediverse, “making it mainstream” (the last thing the hardcore fedizens want), IS dishonest. So I guess we are even.