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mekka okereke :verified:

I just realized that I don't need to argue with y'all about:
* Starter packs
* Composable moderation
* Quote tweets
* Paying trust & safety engineers for their labor
* Funding stuff without VC or begging for donations
* If UX is possible without VC money

I don't need to argue with y'all about any of this. I'm not asking for your permission or your help. I'm telling you what's going to happen.

Mastodon is moving in the right direction, just slowly. It could be faster with funding + focus.

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ahimsa

@mekkaokereke Is there a place where we can donate to help these goals get achieved? Thanks!

Edit: I know about the main donation link for Mastodon but I wonder if maybe there is something else where money is earmarked for these goals?

mekka okereke :verified:

@ahimsa_pdx

I donate to Nivenly. I don't fund projects directly myself. Because I don't trust myself. I'm a dude on the internet. That's two strikes already!

By donating to Nivenly, all members of the Nivenly co-op get to decide which projects to fund, and why.

Nivenly has a great blend of Black, White, Asian, Latin, and trans, technologists, who've seen this movie before (risks of blocklists and starter packs). Very socio-technically aware. They provide governance.👍🏿

github.com/sponsors/nivenly

GitHubSponsor @nivenly on GitHub SponsorsThe Nivenly Foundation is a non-profit co-op supporting open source projects including Hachyderm and Aurae.
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mekka okereke :verified:

@ahimsa_pdx

To be clear, the goal is not for Nivenly to become a perpetual philanthropic organization.

The goal is to bootstrap a self-sustaining, financially viable ecosystem for trust and safety and Fediverse software development. So some projects are incubated and then graduate.

For $7 a month, you can be a Nivenly co-op general member, and get to vote on stuff too!

nivenly.org/governance/

Our money goes into the pot. The Co-op decides what projects to help to advance the Fediverse.

nivenly.orgGovernancePowerful, extensible, and feature-packed frontend toolkit. Build and customize with Sass, utilize prebuilt grid system and components, and bring projects to life with powerful JavaScript plugins.
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ahimsa

@mekkaokereke Thank you for the links, and also for the explanation! ❤️

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Claudine C :antifa:

@mekkaokereke Thanks for this thread! I hadn't looked into Nivenly before but I do love a good co-op.

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

so do they have a roadmap for forking and adding features to Mastodon? will they fork and add QT, on-boarding, etc.?

if they have a roadmap to making that happen, then why aren't y’all getting us all to join?

or are y’all waiting for us to join to then go thru the process of creating the roadmap and setting goals and budgets, etc?

@mekkaokereke @dave_andersen @ahimsa_pdx

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mekka okereke :verified:

@blogdiva @dave_andersen @ahimsa_pdx

Nivenly is probably not going to fork Mastodon, at least not directly. We need to support the existing Fediverse software, including Mastodon, but yes, also the other ActivityPub software.

We need to support these existing efforts, and encourage co-op style governance, sustainable funding, excellence in User Experience design, and Trust & Safety.

We accelerate others' roadmaps.

In some cases, we support others' brand new initiatives.

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