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Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
“Creators deserve credit, compensation, and consent. If that's not on the table, the crawlers can stay the fuck off Patreon," CEO Jack Conte wrote on Thursday.
Building Welcoming Communities
Building a community that encourages people to use, contribute to, and evangelize your project.

Exposing The Hungry Historian (aka Potlikker's) A.I. Slop
Thoughts on Communities | unDraw Blog
Even with the best intentions and people eager to join, most attempts to create communities fail and will continue to do so.

🧭🏘️📲 Exploring a new social product for local communities
We’re seeking local partners for collaboration as we pilot new concepts and designs

The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization
Sure, we have open source, federated replacements for Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. How do we get creators to use this stuff? One consideration involves the ability to pay for things.
Twelve tips for growing communities around your open source project | Ben Balter
Publishing code isn't enough. Twelve practical tips to attract users, welcome contributors, and grow a healthy open source community.


Piloting paid memberships for the open social web! · Leaflet Lab Notes
Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!

Piloting paid memberships for the open social web! - Leaflet Lab Notes
Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

Sustain
Sustain brings together practitioners, sustainers, funders, researchers and maintainers of the open source ecosystem. We have conversations about the health and sustainability of the open source community. We learn about the ins and outs of what ‘open source’ entails in the real world. Open source means so much more than a license; we're interested in talking about how to make sure that the culture of open source continues, grows, and ultimately, sustains itself. Newsletter

Where Tech Companies Build Communities
The customizable, scalable community platform powering over 22,000 communities. Create knowledge through conversation.

Next big thing for Leaflet: helping creators monetize! 💸 First step = paid memberships for your publications Next, exploring other things like one-off payments — tell us what you need! Almost ready & we'd love to find some early partners, please fill out the linked form if you're interested!
Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!
lab.leaflet.pubAnother creator workshop! All things monetization. Talking about @sprk.so and the Atmosphere with creators well versed with making a career in social media. sprk.so/post/did:plc:qed67d2sst5xqsbu…
Another creator workshop! All things monetization. Talking about @s... | Spark
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