in 2021 i saw a lot of promise in poast so because i had a fair bit of money saved i quit my job and focused solely on poast. two years later it's cost me almost 100 grand and it continues to cost me exponentially more money every single day that passes. so i have decided i will just enter the workforce again. because i'm going to get a job to make sure my wife and children don't have to worry about their futures, i will be spending less time focused on poast. so shit will be broken. most shit will be broken. there isn't much i can really do about it besides hiring someone but i wouldn't have to if even 1/10 of you donated 1$/mo.
im giving you advance warning now because i started looking for employment today to pay poasts bills. its pretty sad i have to say this but i expected this website and its users could at least cover the cost of the site but i've had to beg angel donors for an entire year to cover the bills and im just not doing it anymore.
@milk@William_The_Dragonborn@Zerglingman@graf i am making a bad taste joke with the following; imagine what it would be like if poast did things similar to twitter - rate limiting how many poasts you could view as a free account/pay-to-poast.
@graf@William_The_Dragonborn *ah, and the real trick with this is not to try to use it for donations directly, but to use it to get enough that you can then pay deposit on bisq and just buy it KYC-free.
@milk we are still behind almost a grand and when that bill comes due im just simply not paying it so we will be offline. im not paying for people to have a free ride anymore
@secretagentskippy@milk no it does not. I recently asked a poast user to cover our costs a few days ago. the month prior another sent us a crypto donation. you can keep tabs on crypto donations because we publish our addresses. we don't get anything anymore tbh
@Zerglingman@graf I've been using misskey lately and I noticed that the software has built in add capabilities. Now I'm not sure if that money is going to the server or the dev team, but regardless it's time for poast to include adds. Neither love nor passion are paying bills so it's time to soapbox/poast to monetize the platform.
I know that advertising on poa.st doesn't seem intuitive or desirable but it's the only way forward, besides the adds could be based stuff, like the antler-something publishing editorial, or survival equipment stuff, other poa.st users could even pay to get poasters to know and buy their stuff, I don't think you can get any more wholesome than that.
Add a little social engineering to hype it up and I can see it being successful, maybe the first add could be "roundhouse kick niggers into the concrete" to get attention or maybe "This vegan guy is fucking all the bitches and basically you're stupid" meme but with Gleason's face
Cc @sjw for visibility and opinion, I would tag P but I think I know his opinion...
Remember that when poast was created graf and co. Had to tardwrangle users into realising poa.st wasn't the fediverse and that they should stop being Twitter tards and accept fedi culture.
What would have happened if instead he had listened to the users? Nothing good for sure
@Zerglingman@sjw@graf Well yeah because I speak like a retard but that's not the intention, I really do mean what I said, besides I think the fedi could really benefit from hosting adds specially those from fedi users themselves.
Ideally a macroeconomic cycle (or-whatever-the-fuck-you-call-it) could be created. Like for example I follow a poast guy that makes backpacks and lots of woven fabric stuff, what if he decides to buy an add space and because of that he increases his sales and revenue? It's a self replenishment system that cuts away the corporate niggers and any unsavoury propaganda, instead replacing it with a real chance to develop fedi culture and strengthen its economic standing. 122f71a6559729330f092428fb95134c16f0a6e07b23229aef3d64b8baf0ddcf.png
@McMongoose@sjw@Zerglingman@graf it's good and all but since people value privacy here, do you think they're just going to advertise their business to internet retards?
@McMongoose@sjw@Zerglingman@graf >half a year passes >be poastie >have to either donate monthly or see ads >come across post that says "daniel stevens of ontario, canada" >instabanned for learning about that name
@MK2boogaloo@sjw@Zerglingman@graf If you have a real business then you necessarily need to give away your privacy, hosting a server alone, without any profit, requires disclosing your full identity to a third party.
Now I'm sure there's retarded and not retarded ways to go about business management but privacy is not an integral part of running a business, not for the owner at least.
@McMongoose@sjw@graf@MK2boogaloo nah fuck that that means actually writing a shop system because there are no non-retarded ones in existence Also means actually cataloguing my inventory, which I should do.
@Zerglingman@McMongoose@sjw@graf also fix your damn website, imagine people from Tasmania looking for the gayest website and stumbling across yours, they wouldn't buy your DnD stuff.
@lina@sjw@Zerglingman@graf Nah mate don't start drama in my mentions, untag me if you wanna keep going because I'm not tagging alone this gay faggy internet drama bullshit
I don't wanna take any action against the only other russian guy on fedi but e-drama is simply not something I'll tolerate and if I have to mute/block or whatever I'll just do it. I've got a million issues in my life but fake internet people that don't exist ain't one of them. コハル「何もしてないのに壊れたの…」3.jpg.webp.jpg
@McMongoose@sjw@Zerglingman@graf so why are you worried about the fate of a grift instance then? i'm only miffed because daniel stevens of ontario, canada decided that it's he should stop null routing us, even troons from disqordia have more commitment in this regard lmao but i don't care if you block me truth be told
@lina@sjw@Zerglingman@graf Good because I don't care what your troubles are and you shouldn't shove your troubles into someone else's face, because guess what? Nobody but you cares. I won't block you but please reconsider not acting like a Педик, we've already got the gachimuchi nation to cover that role and by god do they do it right. a852dd97947d78f8.png