I use Bluesky and Mastodon. Mastodon better hits where I want the fediverse to go but Bluesky is so much easier to use. Signup, UI, flagship app, feeds, and content is just so much less of a headache. But it feels like it’s a matter of time before it’s enshittified.

I was thinking about how much I hate big tech but there’s a lot of small and mid-size companies that I have neutral to positive views on. Canonical, Mozilla, 37 Signals, Odoo are the ones that come to mind. All of those have a revenue model but also actively support open source initiatives and developers. None are perfect but better than “big tech” and get more done than just donation based development.

It feels like there needs to be some for-profit companies (without ads and maintaining privacy) that can help support the development around ActivityPub and maintain apps and servers that are easier to onboard and easier to use. Does this exist?

What could be some non-evil revenue models? I pay $20/month for a blogging platform for my business website. Maybe have a service to host AP servers for businesses or journalists? Personal private encrypted cloud services like photo backups that are integrated with AP?

  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Dude my point is simple. The concept of a living wage is well established and defined. Including how it can be calculated. There are countless studies and reports and estimates to the point where we could easily establish it as a minimum wage at the very least at the municipal and state levels depending on income needs to “live.”

    This is not complicated. It’s a decades old, well established concept. Unfortunately it has not been implemented in to law in the US in any meaningful way beyond a handful of cities and states. I don’t Know if you were just playing dense or truly do not understand the concept, but there you go. Use fucking Google I don’t care. I don’t need to defend the existence of this concept and how thoroughly researched and thought out it already is.

    Are you going to actually respond substantively or are you going to keep up your lame song and dance? Make your fucking point. What are you trying to say?

    • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      I don’t see why you’re being so hostile to him. I also didn’t know this about a livable wage. I didn’t know we were doing studies on it and thought that it actually referred to a subsistence wage.

      I would actually usually say I don’t like the term livable wage and think we should say “respectable wage” instead. It looks like they mean the same thing, though.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      I don’t know why you’re treating me like a piece of shit for nothing more than trying to understand more about the words you wrote but I suppose I’ll stop doing that.

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        Cue the pearl clutching and jaqassery.

        You open with a sarcastic comment, ask me what the meaning of the word “implemented” is, and then act like you’ve just been sweet and asking innocent questions? You’ll have to excuse me if I’m a little incredulous.