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the sad reality of 2025 is that a large swath of folks have been driven to believe the only value they may have to offer to the internet is to be the product of a company. that needs to change. even folks who say they don’t want to be the product cannot fathom not being the product…

I remember in the early days a number of users (myself included) encouraged Bluesky to introduce a payment option. I'd have been happy to pay a fixed amount of my own choosing, not for extra services/privileges, but to help keep things running. Being supporter instead of product. Nothing came of it.

There is a culture of "free" (as in beer) that has dominated the Internet since the late 90s when corporations figured out how to monetise that and use it as barrier to entry for any challengers. This has become so pervasive that ...

not only do people demand services to be free but games, tool, art, and in our case audio plugins. We are just two people doing, imho, good things and people complain when a complex work costs a couple of drinks. Heck, we get complaints that some of our actually free things don't do enough 😅 Ideas?

the unfortunate reality of this is that we simply have a wide array of shifting priorities and getting to that work just hasn’t quite yet made sense. we got close, and have a lot of the work ready to go. just shifting priorities…

Despite the turbulent times I know your team can do it, Hailey. Looking forward to the idea of people re-discovering what it means to have your own control, no more rage-bait slop...