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Question to the Yarn.social and (new) Salty.im and greater Twtxt community…

Should we consider applying for Open Collective funding?
Would this help us in any way?
Anyone have any experience in this?
Would anyone help drive this?

#YarnSocial #SaltyIM #OpenCollective

Topic for the call today?

@prologic@twtxt.net OpenCollective is pretty solid if you want to accept donations, it takes away a lot of the legal questions at a modest cut. Sandstorm has one, we will be using it more soon.

And since the cut is just a portion of donated funds, there’s really no cost to having it set up. It costs nothing if you aren’t bringing anything in via it.

@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net Sounds like a good idea then. How do we attract funds though? We’re still quite small and niche, but it would be nice to grow – but that means growing pods (as is the design)

Correction, growing the number of pods.

Hmmm, what would you do with funds you raise?

@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net Pay for folks like Maeraj that’s working on the Salty Chat App and hopefully eventually a new native App for Yarn.social too 👌 – Pay for Yarn.social to host geographical free multi-user pods around the globe to help grow the network.

@prologic@twtxt.net I was gonna join the call… but I’m tired. That’s probably a good list though, question is how many are willing to pay how much towards those goals. More users would definitely help.

@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net No problems! 👌