Basically: Musk bribed trump a cool 250 mil, to go in and personally destroy all the regulatory agencies that would regulate his companies. His task now done, he goes back to ranting on Twitter.

I only know it as the "broken telephone"

This shit's hilarious. They're so deep in the "just asking for a friend" trope, that they get defensive pre-emptively, therefore giving up the game.

I will say for sure, Leni sure does a lot of random "friends" who routinely pop up on the same social media she hangs out in, to defend her with a massive amount of insider knowledge. I barely get my friends to even look at memes on fediverse I sent them :D. Leni has the most obsessive and dedicated "friends" in the world, I'll tell ya.

Why did I know it was Lenislop before I even opened the link?

The current system doesn't have more vigilante justice, because people still believe that it's better as a whole to have justice be impartial and not take things into their own hands. Acts like these destroy this illusion. These people who got screwed over now see there is no justice to be had by trusting the system, so why not go all green Mario to see justice done? Each of these acts is like a hammer to the dam of popular sentiment.

@[email protected] draw for me the taco Donald Trump dressed as a cowardly chicken

Man it's miss the nethernet

Ye I know that there's a lot of self-fulfillment coming from FOSS work. It's why I do it even though I'm not getting paid. However being in Luxembourg, even market competitive rates are barely affordable, and good vibes doesn't pay my rent, so alas if our org had enough money to pay someone, I would personally still have to continue with the wage work.

It's unfortunate that people give so much to for-profits, but people doing things that are objectively better for the world, have to tighten their belts to get by.

Anyway, thank you for your time. You explained pretty much what has been my observations in the FOSS space. I agree with all your takes. Perhaps in the future Framasoft and Haidra might be able to collaborate.

Sure, it does look like you were at the right place at the right time indeed and then could continue from there. Having a dedicated communications person is also in my impression very important, but alas they're not as easy to find for FOSS projects.

Could you be able to elaborate what kind of wages you pay your staff? Are they market competitive, or below market rates for the same roles?

Please stick to judgement as per the comm rules, and don't start doing whatever that was. This is not the space to start slap-fights with other commenters.

It see it both from lemmy.dbzer0.com and lemmy.world. Where do you not see it?

Hey thanks for doing this! Impressive that you can support 10 paid staff. As someone also doing FOSS development in Europe, it's inspiring that you managed to achieve this so I'm hoping you could share some light. How do you have so many people donating? Do you have dedicated outreach people or just people donate on their own. My own FOSS projects typically just get enough donations to cover their hosting costs and not much else.

Did you start as a big team, or just kinda grew from one person's projects starting 20 years ago?

Any tips and strategies to other FOSS devs in Europe would be greatly appreciated.