He’s also receiving €1 million as a one-time compensation. Not quite enough to retire on that.
It is if you deliberately find a low cost of living area and control your costs.
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> Now.. if only DHH would do the same for Rails...
Random comment - what is DHH gatekeeping about Ruby or Rails that would be better if he was not?
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#45"The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape." This seems like an extreme view to me. It's not so bad
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The catastrophizing perspecting is objetively correct from the perspective of the present and future that we are creating.
The open web as we knew it 20 years ago does not exist. Governments continue to tighten down on freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and financial restrictions through the digitizing of currency and arbitrary sanction mechanisms.
Income inequality continues to increase. Standards of living in the West have marginal increases in material access at the cost of unaffordability in housing and health. Retirement benefits continue to be chipped away. Organized labor is made more and more irrelevant each day.
None of this will make a difference in your daily life. Until it does; then it's too late.
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#46> The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape. It’s telling that people like this who use “capitalism” as a pejorative never have any compelling alternative to offer beyond “let experts in the state micromanage everyone and everything”.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no power vacuum. There's now a Mastodon nonprofit organization with an executive director and leadership team.
So worse... a committee.
It's an open source project. What exactly are you expecting?
Keep in mind that every for-profit publicly-owned corporation has many shareholders, as well as a board of directors, which is, gasp, a committee!
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#48Mastodon is great. It's just unfortunate that the number of people is on the low side.
I think the fediverse is great but: the specific desire for "more people that you already know coming to the Fediverse" is good; the general desire "more people" is not such a useful goal.
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#49This is the problem with a stressful role, with little compensation. Most people wouldn't want to be in this position. It sounds like anyone that runs a moderately sized open source project. More money would solve most of these issues.
I used to volunteer moderate a very busy forum.
Our rule was that anyone who wanted to moderate “too much” was effectively not allowed to do so.
The catch being finding those who would help out and moderate effectively was not easy. And even then you were cycling through them regularly as inevitably if they cared enough they also cared enough that they stepped down.
I do wonder though if you have people doing it for the money, would that help or hinder?
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#50He’s also receiving €1 million as a one-time compensation. Not quite enough to retire on that.
Still enough to have a good lil nest egg that generates okay-ish passive income if invested correctly. @ 4% that's €40k/year more than what most regular people have
Does he not have to pay taxes on that 1m euros in the eu?