Hey #fediverse people, I've an ask: If you appreciate all that I do for the fediverse and open social web, and you'd like to see me continue to do that work, please support my work financially.
Right now I'm having to look for work outside of the Fediverse because I simply cannot make ends meet.
I need €60-70k per year to support myself, with costs everywhere feeling increased (so that number may even be too low)
Right now, year to date, I've received a total of €20,170 in financial support from the community, and €22,450 from NLNet grants. I've also only had minimal freelance work this year, as I've been busy on grant work & try to focus on the fediverse & open social web.
So my total income isn't yet enough to be regularly sustainable. I've had problems being able to make rent payments this year because cashflow on grants comes in large chunks usually months after the work has been done.
So if you want to see me keep doing what I'm doing, please support my work!
FediMod FIRES is also rapidly approaching 1.0.0, and there's now instructions available for how to setup and install your own FIRES server.
https://fires.fedimod.org/manuals/reference-server/
That's also why my contributions to Mastodon have dropped off a bit this year, as I've needed to focus on FediMod FIRES, since it was income I could rely on.
I've still landed some pretty big changes in mastodon this year: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pulls?q=is%3Amerged+is%3Apr+author%3AThisIsMissEm+merged%3A%3E2024-12-31
I've also been having to take on work outside of the fediverse to try to keep things sustainable, but of course that means I'm busy doing that work instead of working on the open social web.
Reference Server Implementation | FediMod FIRES