Created this account so I could create the community. Decided on lemm.ee because my main account is on aussie.zone, which does not allow community creation (and limits its communities to things about Australia). Figured lemm.ee is better than lemmy.world due to the latter’s performance/federation issues.
Do you want the Fediverse to be a soup kitchen or do you want to be as good as of a dining experience as it can be?
Feel free to advocate for your vision as much as you like, but it seems the audience here isn’t very receptive.
You are avoiding a question and using “other people” as a distraction, instead of commiting yourself to an opinion.
It is not the first time that you do that. Why?
I’m not, you are the one trying to present me as if I’m not discussing in good faith.
My point is that, if people were receptive to your proposition (I know you posted about Communick in the past), they would subscribe to it, and then we wouldn’t have the conversation we had in the last few days.
Based on your comments and the stats on your flagship instance, it doesn’t seem to be the case, which is why I said that the audience doesn’t seem very receptive.
Seems quite logical to me, and nothing my personal opinion has any impact on.
The question you are evading is simple: is your vision for the Fediverse something where everyone will be only working altruistically and that we should serve users who are purely out of a sense of community/charity (the soup kitchen model) or do you think there is value in paying professionals their market rate in order to get a service with better support, integrate new features and will have a vested interest in providing a superior experience (the “people go to restaurants and pay more than the cost of the food” model)?
Haven’t we discussed this question at length recently?
You actually never answered my last comment, which answers tour question, so maybe you missed it: https://feddit.org/comment/1871850
You have a lengthy comment indeed, but it does not mean that you are answering the question I made: do you think that the Fediverse can be “successful” only via “pure” communal efforts, or do you think that it needs professionals to work on it and who should be properly appraised - ii.e, be paid according to market rate?
Taking 30$ per year as a reference point as this is your pricing on Communick (I know it also involves Mastodon and Matrix, but there is no Lemmy only package anymore, so that’s the only option), this is too high and goes against the philosophy of free software.
Does your Linux distribution ask you for a yearly fee for development and maintenance costs?
Does F-droid ask you for a yearly fee?
Grayjay?
On the other hand, some people paid for Sync, so there is still an part of the Lemmy population who is ready to pay for software, but Sync is a polished product they knew they could trust quality wise.
You are still not answering the question!
Forget about Communick or my offer specifically: I am asking if you think that there is any value in paying for a service based on open standards.
I am not asking what you think of my pricing (though if your excuse is that $29 for the bundle is too much, you could say say what price point would interest you)
I am not asking you to compare the business of charging for a service (hosting) vs a product (client apps).
I am not asking you to pay for everything that is free (Linux developers are mostly employed by profit-driven companies who use Linux as a way to commoditize their complements). I am asking you whether you see the value of supporting the work of developers yourself instead of couching under the “community effort” excuse.
I am asking you to reveal your preferences and so far all I am seeing is you making an extraordinary effort to avoid saying “I refuse to pay for something that is not mandatory, even if my support could be beneficial to everyone”
And for the record, I contributed to Pixelfed and Mastodon development (hundreds of euros per year) out of my own pocket regardless of Communick. I do it not because I have to, but because I believe that developers of free projects should be valued by their efforts and that the only way we can get rid of ad-based, predatory social media platforms is by putting our money where our mouths are.