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1. ✨ Nora Tindall 🪐 (noracodes@weirder.earth)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 07:59:52 UTC ✨ Nora Tindall 🪐

   Looks like Gitea might be turning to cryptocurrency nonsense in the near future.

   "To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions."

   https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea/

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 07:59:51 UTC muesli

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     @noracodes

     I don't see any mention of cryptocurrency nonsense in their blog post.

     From what I understand they're forming a company, so they have an entity that can actually offer paid-for services. This also allows them to reward any of their (already hard-working) contributors, maybe even hire them.

     I fail to see how that's a bad thing.

   • humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 09:13:37 UTC humanetech

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom @noracodes

     There's also the mention of an Enterprise version, which makes me wonder if that'll be open-core.

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 10:11:16 UTC muesli

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     • humanetech

     @humanetech @noracodes

     I'm indeed curious to see how they approach that part. It's a bit of a balance act, but if done right, I take no issue with that. Other projects have shown that it is possible.