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Lol don't you look silly. Here's who's running this server. They're already fully set up as a non-profit.
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As someone that fits this bill perfectly, and considered tossing my hat in the ring, I kind of agree with this person.
While I may not agree with the phrasing and hostility, the point still stand that they are effectively looking for Senior Level + DevOps.
And 5 hours a week will turn into 30+ as the person or persons takes over ownership of the required pieces.
My main holdup is just having enough time personally.
I agree I'm pretty pissy and numb to the former reddit and now lemmy crowd. It's all just bitching that everything should be free without looking into the reality of costs (among others off topic topics). I want a decentralized network to happen but I am 100% expecting the community to fuck it up.
This is like year of the Linux desktop for social media just playing out in duplicate with no understanding why Linus desktop never took off.
As long as they don't lament your existence when they disagree with you it's a false dichotomy. It's OK to ask for volunteers from the community, that's kinda what makes it a community. It's not OK to shit on your volunteers.
You can do whatever the heck you want. Successful communities are rarely successful at scale without funding. Debian, RHEL, C, Rust, Go, Apache, Nginx, Ruby, JS, etc all have a considerable commercial backing. Nothing tells me anyone had a viable long term plan for ensuring privacy and stability.
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