I could go in another direction and monetize the service with a simple open source counterpart.

Or just open source it and hope for sponsors for the website, I'd be okay with this and tbh this is the most ideal option for the fediverse.

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Samuel Hautamäki

@dansup I think it would be a good idea to just open source pubkit, those who want to support you will support you. I think this sort of "donate and I'll publish the source" kind of goes against what open source stands for, but hey you do you, everyone wants that bag.

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@dansup
pubkit.net/features says "100% Free for Developers".

Gonna take that back?

Who's using Pubkit now, to do what?

I'd like to see a strong AP development organization emerge that supports companies that earn money by selling goods and uses some of it to support the software developers. That would require, I think, at least shared source among the players in the AP dev organization.

I think individual proprietary software is a dead end.

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