Amanda Unvarnished

It’s amazing to me that we’ve built a system where you’re punished for trying to do the right thing and rewarded for fucking things up.

Want to build a better web? Sure, man. Sounds great. How about you toil under financial insecurity and spend inordinate amounts of time worrying about keeping a roof over your head? That should be fun.

By the way, why isn’t it ready yet? Look at what those billionaires are achieving. What’ve they got that you don’t?

Hmm, let me think about that for a second…

—@aral

I don’t know who needs to hear this but abandoning that open source project that is burning you out is not a personal failure.

You can just mark it as unmaintained and walk away.

Maybe someone else will pick it up.

Maybe they won’t.

It’s not a child. You don’t have to raise it to adulthood.

—@dreid

“but I need ads to fund my fedi instance”

then you can’t afford to run an instance, don’t.

—@aurynn

Ad-funded toxicity infests everywhere else, don’t bring that here.

—@aurynn

Why an ads plugin concerns me is that paid ads come with a LOT of expectations around analytics and “engagement”. Which means that any instance running an ads plugin would explicitly be harvesting data from the rest of the fediverse to sell to the ad company.

Which is hostile and horrible behaviour, and to me means that federating with that instance is dangerous.

—@aurynn