Notices by D Dino (garbados@toot.cat), page 19

i thought The Dragon Prince was pretty good 🐲

@Efi how do you mean p2p in this context? you can write an interface like pinafore and syndicate it over p2p protocols like dat, for example. other uses are under research

burrito inhaled. massive success 🤤

@JordiGH the trouble with relying on volunteer corps is that they’re unreliable, and every fork effort to date has suffered from it. interest ebbs and flows. people have lives. people have rent. to ensure they have the time to help, pay them for their time! the governance of community infrastructure is not an undertaking to be considered lightly.

@JordiGH let’s say you had one full-time dev and a $70k slush fund. you raise wages / increase hours for current workers, like moderators and maintainers, and together set out bylaws for a foundation / guild. the foundation spins off working groups of core members who, for example, manage a project roadmap or apply for additional grant funding (such as from cities and municipalities) that can support the foundation once the flush runs out.

@therealraccoon yeah same. it’s a natural consequence of projects with low bus factors but to see it defended as good or effective, like,,, 🤷♀️

rather than cling to autocracy, software maintainers must learn to collaborate and delegate, to create cooperative authorities greater than themselves. the ASF and the PSF show some of the ways this can be done, to rally and train labor for a project, to marshal and organize resources — to make of a work a community institution.

a benevolent dictatorship is neither ethical nor accountable, much less benevolent; BDFL is a joke of a term, used to disparage fragile or jealous governance. it is a tragedy that we are so alienated from governance to feel dictatorship is somehow wise.

i am 20 minutes from inhaling a burrito, can’t wait

social media is community infrastructure and requires ethical, accountable governance as much as roads and bridges do.

overgro