Guppe Groups Platform Co-op
The social groups app for Mastodon and the Fediverse where supporters decide what features to develop - brought to you by Immers Space
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Łukasz Wójcik
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david
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Michael Reeder
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Paul Kater
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About
In 2022, with the unprecedented influx of traffic to Mastodon from people leaving Twitter, the cost of operating Guppe has risen from $10/month to over $100/month as it now serves 4,000 requests per minute during peak times. That's more than I can justify spending on this hobby horse, so, with some prompting from Guppe users, I've set up this Open Collective page to allow contributions - with a twist.
I fundamentally do not believe that being a programmer gives me any special right to make decisions for others, and I recognize that the interests of the operator of a social app often conflict with the interests of the users of that app. That's why we invested in consultants and legal counsel to develop a cooperative governance model for Immers Space that shares power between the workers and the users of the software, and Immers Space will now manage Guppe with a similar model.
- Your contributions to Guppe on Open Collective will count as membership dues
- Contributions received in excess of operating costs will be used to fund development hours to improve Guppe and add new features
- Development decisions will be made democratically through member votes on our Loomio group
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