I know man, and damnit I’m proud of you.

I’m just here to say fuck air bnb. Ban that shit for it’s contribution to the housing crisis.

Are there any sites in the Fediverse written in .net? I’d like to contribute to these sites, but I haven’t touched PHP in over a decade.

This speaks to how bad Google has gotten IMO - I do it too.

I’m not convinced you need corporate money though. I think grants/user contributions (add the awards concept like Reddit has?) can get you pretty far a la Wikipedia.

I don’t want corporate social media full stop. As soon as there is a profit motive things will always slowly decay.

I just hope it’s viable to survive on grants/donors a la Wikipedia. Add some “awards” like on reddit, and that should help as well.

I just hope this is the start of an internet renaissance with less corporate control.

Yeah only way I see it working is if it’s more of a peer to peer / torrenting concept. As in while you use it, you are “seeding” other videos / content as well.

Sucks that the UI doesn’t auto-link that for you.

My hope is that things like Chat GPT can now become that source. I can only assume all those historical posts were used as training data.