An interview with @thisismissem from @APC: FediMod FIRES on building better and decentralised social media applications (by @XavCC).

Probably the biggest thing that I’ve learned over the years of the Fediverse is that it depends almost entirely on volunteer labour. There are a few people that are paid full time to work on the Fediverse. But to actually get the things that you need, it very much largely depends on volunteer labour, because projects are either chasing funding through grants or they're chasing funding through their nations. And those demands can often be at odds with what people overall need or want.

So that's probably the biggest learning from the Fediverse that I have: a lot of it is just run and funded by individuals and volunteers, which often means that it doesn't move as fast as more commercial operations.

> And those demands can often be at odds with what people overall need or want.

@hongminhee and here
I was thinking that having corporatized projects chasing investment returns is the thing that brings the wrong incentives to the development of social media. As it is daily reminded to us by Facebook and Co.

I'm going to speak my mind about this:
@thisismissem has sold out.

@APC @XavCC

@hongminhee @thisismissem @APC @XavCC Thank you for sharing this interview! Many of the points resonate with me. I'm not sure what the best solutions are, but we definitely need to do something about this.

@hongminhee @APC @XavCC mildly annoyed that typo made it in "chasing funding through their nations" is meant to read "chasing funding through their donations" very different meaning. The transcription of the call got this wrong (blame my accent!)