Meanwhile DigitalOcean couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.
DigitalOcean deleted 4 years of my data 6 days before my billing date over a $25
23 votes, 27 comments. So I'm still in shock and need to share this so nobody else goes through it. I've been with DigitalOcean for years. My billing…
Sean Tilley (@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org)
While it’s true that the Big Platforms have a massive hold over online creators when it comes to financial incentive, I still think there’s some worthwhile things we can do.Ask Big Creators what to...
Molly White
Yep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income. Here’s some napkin math for how expensive Substack is compared to its competitors:
Platformonomics - Dining Preferences of the Cloud and Open Source: Who Eats Who?
TL;DR: If the cloud didn’t eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects? Marc Andresseesssen’s “software is eating the world” has given rise to an entire technolog…
What the shockingly large Democratic election sweep means for the tech world
AI money flopped, crypto’s “army” lost its marquee rematch, and data centers turned out to be a voting issue. Silicon Valley bought a lot of ads this year. Voters didn’t buy them. And Live Activities continue to impress.
The Github Tax (I can't believe they actually did this...)
Billionaires Eliminate Founders with One Press of a Button
De-google-ify Internet - Main Page
The web giants centralize our digital lives in exchange for their services The Free Software community offers alternative ethical services The Framasoft network intends to prove itby hosting them
What-if: crates.io paid subscription for commercial use
In @nikomatsakis' 2020 blog post, he calls for a shift in focus "from adoption to investment. (...) for Rust to really thrive, we need to see more people paid for their work on Rust teams. I wanna accept that call-to-action and propose one such opportunity for investment. tl;dr: The online service Crates.io could start charging commercial users a nominal fee, collected purely through opt-in payment; no paywalls or licensing changes. How crates.io could turn a profit without hurtin' anybody ...
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
Ersatz Free Trials
On Monday Apple announced that they are officially supporting so-called "free trials" for non-subscription apps. The reaction has been a breathless celebration that Apple has finally relented and given developers something we've been asking, no begging, for since the dawn of the App Store.But what
Is it time for Cloud Native Open Source?
tl;dr; maybe, but the old school Open Source is not going away any time soon
Help fund our lil indie operation! Larger legacy communities on Discord can now pay $30/month to unlock live bridging at scale for the purpose of either safe-keeping or incrementally transitioning their community to Roomy and the atmosphere. should we add a $5/month good-vibes-only supporter plan?
Roomy Pro
blog.roomy.spaceYep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.
Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms that offer larger shares of subscription revenue
digiday.comHi folks, we've received feedback about the pricing for our docs.coop hosting. We've decided to drop the price to £30/mo for a small Docs instance. This comes with an SSO provider (such as Keycloak or Authentik). Hit us up at boop@autonomic.zone if need help deGoogling your office suite!
Autonomic Co-op
We're thrilled to announce our new project: docs.coop! Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (docs.numerique.gouv.fr), we're offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.
