Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.
@Gargron
You won't see this message because the people who pull your strings, as an investor would, have told you to silence me.
They control you, they control your software, and you don't even get the benefits of VC-backing
Big winner right here.
Money relinquishes control ? + My "What is Money?" description / answer... 💲❓
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"You invite money, you relinquish control. the money stops the moment you don't fall in line even with crowdfunding" ❓
💬 said by anime graf mays)
That does seem true about money and seems towards my level of "purism" (if I can call it that)
...but I don't have an answer for going without money usage other than at some point money is used & needed and to head towards not using it....
...so maybe I'd stay at the "at home" level of #computing to make sure of that since we all have that (like a #p2p version of Mastodon just for some imagination and example) but then I'm not sure what else can be bigger + 24/7 running and care / minimise without big money and #BIGtech (Mastodon runs on Amazon S3 mostly everywhere). Trying mostly just with home-tech and software as the setup?... might be 'for the way' with #climate being eaten (by us) and polluted (by USA mostly)...
Money here is the problem too but also that people DON'T understand a lot about how it's stealing / diminishing instantly and over time... but even without making this about money STILL ANTI-google/youtube people are posting google / youtube links for example here which is CHA-CHING for them for millions of links per day... so this shows people are lazy or fall into back into bad habits (or not using filtered links through something open-source like Invidious which obviously hurt them as they changed it to ruin filters sites - this is a good sign and shows hurting them at the "money" level is a real winner)
So we're born into the 'money' scam / scheme / system (in English also means way of swindle) and we can't get out to a certain extent without eliminating ourselves from purely needing that consumption even to eat or do transactions (which ever transaction is taxed further reducing effectiveness of money / displace it)....
THE REST BELOW IS AN
ANSWER TO 'WHAT IS MONEY?'
...and if you think you know all this then read it and tell me you knew all this and can live life easily and knowingly without doing something about money itself as the main problem (for all things, Mastodon and all life)...
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SO WHAT IS MONEY?
(ACCORDING TO ME AND YOU?)
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FOR ME "MONEY" IS... a deflationary medium, deliberately reducing it's worth over time to undermine to steal back value back to banks and cheat people out of their energy and savings while seemingly providing life but overall much less than you think and even entering MINUS / NEGATIVE NUMBERS / EQUATIONS (and therefore life similarly negative)
Money it also psychologically accumulated ignorance (and very hard to follow) but 'easy' to use making the medium used by the many who use it but don't understand it - and can't see or accept other people are paying for money as loans / fees / etc which actually dilutes their own " #money " and reduces overall "money" if if they never took a loan!. All loans allow more debt than anything else positive as banks re-loan with false power (can loan 9 or 10x your savings)
So society accrues a false sense of security while almost everyone is losing like a bag of sand with a hole you can't really see but leaks even more when you move it (or another analogy like bucket with hole).
Which is also why people have to work endlessly... like a leak in your society's bucket... and it's mainly called a " #bank " 🏦
Anime, I guess you aren't for money but would like to ask if you could image small-scale / at-home stuff working (so maybe no remote server / no Amazon S3 / no Cloud in between ?) ❓
