commit 8f29dcceff9770bc808ea0de26a3c75286598266
parent 2d0cbc80f248675e6f61a2e4e006fef4de759808
Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date: Wed Jan 15 18:04:26 +0100
typo again
Diffstat:2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/on-not-scaling-lurk/index.html b/on-not-scaling-lurk/index.html
@@ -366,12 +366,12 @@ governance</title>
pretending that the economic dimension does not exist is incredibly
dishonest. (Post-)Free culture evangelism has to stop sounding like
an obscure hypocritical pyramid scheme with only the most privileged
- persons are the ones who are able to play the game. To our surprise,
- soliciting donations has worked so far, and we have been using the
- majority of donations to compensate for sysadmin and moderation
- labour of the team. We believe we are one of the few instances where
- donated funds are used primarily to pay people, rather than cloud
- companies. Really.</p>
+ persons being the ones who are able to play the game. To our
+ surprise, soliciting donations has worked so far, and we have been
+ using the majority of donations to compensate for sysadmin and
+ moderation labour of the team. We believe we are one of the few
+ instances where donated funds are used primarily to pay people,
+ rather than cloud companies. Really.</p>
<p>However, we also realize that this can raise expectations on what
LURK as a project will become, and we want to be explicit that we
are not planning to change the nature and scale of our operation. We
diff --git a/on-not-scaling-lurk/on-not-scaling-lurk.md b/on-not-scaling-lurk/on-not-scaling-lurk.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Surely, there is an alternative timeline where LURK is run as a super structured
Concerning financial sustainability, one of the ways we have been receiving (and gladly accepting) a tremendous amount of support is in terms of donations. We started an [Open Collective](opencollective.com/lurk) in 2021 and have been amazed at how people have chipped in. Because we are small, frugal, anti-cloud and get some of our infrastructure sponsored[^sponsored], we have historically spent very little costs regarding infrastructure. The reason we started collecting donations was to see if we could compensate for maintenance labour instead, and hopefully demonstrate the value of such a tactic at a time when Big Tech and a misunderstanding of open forms of software production have led us to believe that the digital commons and digital solidarity are a thing falling from the sky. This is
-even crucial for us, as, like discussed earlier, we are often helping other cultural workers to run things themselves and pretending that the economic dimension does not exist is incredibly dishonest. (Post-)Free culture evangelism has to stop sounding like an obscure hypocritical pyramid scheme with only the most privileged persons are the ones who are able to play the game. To our surprise, soliciting donations has worked so far, and we have been using the majority of donations to compensate for sysadmin and moderation labour
+even crucial for us, as, like discussed earlier, we are often helping other cultural workers to run things themselves and pretending that the economic dimension does not exist is incredibly dishonest. (Post-)Free culture evangelism has to stop sounding like an obscure hypocritical pyramid scheme with only the most privileged persons being the ones who are able to play the game. To our surprise, soliciting donations has worked so far, and we have been using the majority of donations to compensate for sysadmin and moderation labour
of the team. We believe we are one of the few instances where donated funds are used primarily to pay people, rather than cloud companies. Really.
However, we also realize that this can raise expectations on what LURK as a project will become, and we want to be explicit that we are not planning to change the nature and scale of our operation. We will use the funds to continue to pay for labour, keep a buffer for these moments where we suddenly need to fix something urgently. If there is any surplus, we aim to donate upstream. This can be to either Servus (who hosts one of our servers for free until now), or some individuals and collectives developing software and projects we use and like when working on LURK. We are still trying to figure out how we will make it work and it will likely take a couple of years before we have something that works. Fermentation. To be honest, it’s difficult to get a clear idea of our operational expenses in terms of labour, and as a result, how to best use the buffer. Before asking for donations we spent two years carefully writing down all the time we spend on maintaning LURK infra to get an idea of how much labour would need to be supported. At the moment we're still juggling with things. For instance, we’ve now noticed that it only takes a few days of technical or moderation clusterfuck for
