Oddbean new post about login | logout @f50dbb78 Yes. Then I realize that the team would need to be paid.
@6b43cb18 that's what I'm meaning. Imagine if the funding for that existed. Even if it was just for 6 months to 2 years.
@f50dbb78 What I mean is that the Fediverse is very non-profit-ey and anti-commercial, so it'd be impossible to see such a team.
@6b43cb18 well, the way I see it is that we're going to have to get comfortable with asking for money & investing it into the types of platforms and tools we want to use
@f50dbb78 Fund-raising? Sure, I think that is a great idea. A team that size would run about $10 to $15 million a year if done cheaply. Which can be raised from ads or subscriptions. Maybe $1 a year from each user?
@6b43cb18 I mean, it doesn't need to be 60 people, but like, just scaling Mastodon from 2 full time engineers on core to 5. That's like.. €500k/year. Maybe a bit more or less (given "good" European salaries, and taxes / insurance) Given there's 1.3 million MAU that should be easy to reach.
@f50dbb78 That is what the mastodon.social team resembles, I think.
@6b43cb18 no, not at all. Mastodon gGmbH only has Eugen & Claire working on mastodon/mastodon, then there's an SRE or two on mastodon.social and mastodon.online (there's also mods of course) I know this, because I applied to be the third engineer on the team to work full-time on mastodon/mastodon, unfortunately it fell through. The numbers I gave account for MUAs for all servers running Mastodon. Point is, even at $1/yr each, we'd have that money.