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  • I don’t think you get my point. I’m not advocating to relicense kbin code or make it closed. Everyone will always be free to fork and make their own kbin-like client if they’re unhappy with the original. I’m also not suggesting taking kbin off Fediverse.

    Right now, I think only 1 person has complete power over the domain kbin.pub, and the git repository. So that is as centralized as it gets. Same thing with the kbin.social instance, but I’d like to keep administration of the kbin project sepatate from the kbin.social fediverse instance (both can live without the other). I’d like the current main kbin client project (the only?) to get proper administration and financing.



  • kbin is just a bin of code that everyone can toss into, there is no singular domain to own.

    There is kbin.pub and the main branch git. Just because forks can continue working if the main kbin git gets messed up, compromised or whatever, it doesn’t mean that the development wouldn’t be in serious trouble in the real life. It would be far from smooth


  • Having a foundation/non-profit is easy and virtually free of fees. Small-time hobbyist sports clubs of like 10 people often have a nonprofit to manage the (small) finances of the group where I live. Kbin has potential to be a very big player in the post-reddit times, with millions of users. I don’t know what ernest does for living but it wouldn’t take much money to pay him full-time for Kbin development, but that would be the kind of expenses I was thinking (and later small-time marketing)