“You exchange real money at a booth, and in return you get tokens or fake currency that are only usable inside that ecosystem.”

To me that sounds like Reddit’s award system.

“Boosting posts or creators (opt-in)”

I hate this idea. I don’t want algorithms nor paid boosting to change the sorting of content. That’s one of the reasons I left Reddit.

Instead of introducing a complex internal currency or paid boosting, Fediverse instances could adopt a simple, transparent system inspired by Signal’s (the messenger) supporter badges.

Users voluntarily donate to their instance (one-time or recurring). In return, their profile gets a small, instance specific badge visible next to their avatar.

Badges are purely visual, they don’t have any influence on post visibility or sorting.

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I forgot to mention, that the badges are only visible for a certain time, like a month or so

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I’m not saying, that this is the best solution, but to me this solution is fair, doesn’t interfere with the core values of the fediverse and still raises awareness of the importance of financial support.

The comment section has some disturbing views.

What do I own today? I live in a rented flat, my car is leased, even the movies I watch are “rented”.

Affordability is in crisis ALTHOUGH WE DON’T OWN ANYTHING.

So tell me more about how not owning anything will be the solution.

That was my thought too, the article skips the most obvious cause: violence and state repression work as a deterrent. If being queer or trans risks surveillance, legal attack, or violence, people will understandably stay silent.

So what?

I will still do what needs to be done. I simply won’t stop until he lost everything.

Dear sane Americans, please keep on going in that direction!

I installed Manjaro on one of my computers and I wanted to see, if ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Mistral where useful in eliminating some quirks you always encounter after a fresh install. So I asked them whenever I stumbled upon an issue how I could solve that issue.

None, I’d like to emphasise this: NONE of their tips was helpful.

And Mr Masad wants me to believe AIs would be able to program whole applications within a year?

MUAHAHAHA