@raphaelmorgan oh i didn't intend to throw too much shade there actually just meant to note that it seems insufficient as a criteria on its own and worth noting just because nonprofits are very much created as corporate shells. it's not like an easy problem to solve at all i just do think that governance concern is an essential component of a robust solution
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this part is perhaps a bit naive however https://toot.cat/@dthompson/116053507339531990 the rust foundation is a nonprofit
@hipsterelectron I mean... Not all nonprofits are good, obviously, but all for-profits are bad, so I get it 🤷 idk if the idea was "this is a surefire way to make sure it's led/maintained well" or just "letting it be run by a for-profit corporation is a surefire way to make sure there are gonna be issues" but the latter is 100% true so I'm inclined to assume that was the intention
@raphaelmorgan oh i didn't intend to throw too much shade there actually just meant to note that it seems insufficient as a criteria on its own and worth noting just because nonprofits are very much created as corporate shells. it's not like an easy problem to solve at all i just do think that governance concern is an essential component of a robust solution
@hipsterelectron very good point, we def need to be wary of trusting nonprofits just because they claim to be nonprofits 😅 hopefully any software that pops up is thoroughly vetted by the community either way, and we take "nonprofit" as a yellow-green flag but dig further into how much of a lie that is lol
@raphaelmorgan i really really love @OpenArchive's literally decentralized local structures as an answer for hosting content at high risk of censorship. funding software development is a little different but i mention it here because it's an example of a robust model that evades the centralizing control that nonprofits can wield