ICYMI I've been working on a federated social network for FGC because Twitter is circling the drain. It's slightly more real now, so you can maybe sign up.
We have:
- Terms of Service. No crypto, no pedo shit, keep the smut on the DL for the most part, and be kind to eachother.
- A support portal. Somehow I never see a Mastodon/Fediverse instance with it's own support page or help desk, which seems like the first thing you want to do when you try to push open source software.
- A support Discord! Our emails are taking several hours to deliver to Google recipients for no good reason so we've set up a temp ticketing Discord and will migrate to OSTicket in the future once we're confident in our ability to deliver mail to Google's ratchet-ass service. The discord is on the support portal site.
- A Patreon. It costs me about $35/mo to run this thing, right now. That should scale pretty well, and I've been floated some money to start with, but we'll see how it goes.
- A Ko-Fi for the same reasons as a Patreon but in case you wanna do one-off donations you can this way,
- Maybe functional emails now? I've been working on verifying our mail account in every possible way, and I saw someone use a gmail to sign up and immediately verify, so...let's hope it's working by tomorrow?
Anyway this has been my personal obsession the past few weeks and I think it's finally in some semblance of working order. Hopefully it's cool and not the worst decision I've ever made.