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1. NGI Zero open source funding (ngizero@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 20:11:53 JST NGI Zero open source funding

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   Pouhiou Lafon Roudier of @Framasoft presents @peertube at #NGIFORUM23 "We built a videoplatform based on old internet values such as decentralization. Not one big platform but many small federated platforms." More than a 1000 instances & a million video's. All that in six years and one paid developer. (A 2nd dev recently joined. Yay!)
   "With little means we can do a lot in the open source community",

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 20:11:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     @NGIZero @Framasoft @peertube But please don’t take that to mean that we can work miracles with nothing either.

     Why is it that Silicon Valley asshats get €5M a pop for every toxic, extractive startup idea they have whereas we have to beg for scraps and spend inordinate amounts of time on to ensure basic necessities like keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table when we’re the ones building the ethical alternatives?

     https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 18:01:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Framasoft @NGIZero @peertube 💕

   • Framasoft (framasoft@framapiaf.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 18:01:40 JST Framasoft

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     @aral @NGIZero @peertube
     YES!
     You are SO right to say that, and I (hi, Pouhiou here!) will be more careful next time I'll use such comparisons.

     My point here was that both "products" cannot be compared, as we are fighting Dragons[1] with toothpicks.

     2 years ago, I calculated that Framasoft's yearly budget was 9mn of No time to die.

     Because it shows the world we prioritize : do we want more James Bond movies, or more funds for activists who try to improve the world?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 18:05:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Framasoft @NGIZero @peertube (And no worries, it just frustrates me that we’ve been working on building the Small Web for years now with zero public investment from NGI/NLNet/EU/etc. and not for lack of trying, we’ve been turned down every time and I’ve quit applying. And yet folks are always “so happy you exist.” Well, no thanks to you.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 18:06:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Framasoft @NGIZero @peertube Haha, indeed :)

   • Framasoft (framasoft@framapiaf.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 18:06:54 JST Framasoft

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     @aral @NGIZero @peertube
     [1] obviously, I need now to apologize to Dragons, that must have been offended to be compared to Surveillance Capitalism companies.
     I know I'd be, too

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 18:15:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Framasoft @NGIZero @peertube PS. Just calculated it and Small Technology Foundation’s yearly budget is around 1 minute of that film, if that.