Purism, a company (?) that makes money for giving you access to
- a mail server
- a VPN
- Matrix
- Mastodon
their favorite repetition is "not locked-in to one technology company"
sigh.
@pixel
At this point purism appears to be a bad actor in the disguise of a good one.
I am loosing faith in the project and the sincerity of it.
@TheGnuMaster and the worst thing is, instead of being open about what they use for all the services, they slap own product names onto it, and only ever so slightly mention small bits about the original thing.
@pixel
Labelling these things with their Purism name is unethical, especially the way they are doing it.
@pixel I think that it can be challenging for Free Software projects to find a good business model that will pay.
I think that funding projects through online funding sites or using various crypto currency projects is better.
@pixel what do you think of Brave and Basic Attention Token, or Steemit as possible ways for making money for Free Software Projects?
@TheGnuMaster I haven't really heard a lot of positive things about Brave and BAT recently
and in general, if your users stand behind you, any basic donation model will work to keep a service alive. Don't hand a product to people, share services with them and get them invested in the ecosystem.
That's how you'll get support from a sizable amount of people.
@TheGnuMaster the model feels super sketchy too.
Like, if they would do something beneficial, they'd offer the services without hiding most of it behind a paywall.
Social and Chat are free, but they are so many buttons with "spend x money", they just want to grab your cash.