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Kbin Foundation when? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by mmaramara@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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When will there be a Kbin Foundation that:

collects and handles money to help build Kbin (right now I don't see a single "donate" button)
owns any property of Kbin (like domain and git), so that the board of the foundation can decide what's done with it if ernest kicks the bucket or goes insane
has a board that can make decisions about Kbin to spread power from one person to many?

@ernest
I don't even know how pinging works :)

I'll gladly become a donor when I see that Kbin will not be a one-guy-show for long, but a serious project that will outlive it's creator. If ernest is not actively planning to have this project live even without himself, then I bet it's not going to last.

Please comment any thoughts you have, and have a nice summer!

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[–] minnieo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

other comments already answered a big part of this, but i dont think id want some foundation or group of certain people in power of kbin and in power of who has power over kbin, that defeats the purpose of a decentralized platform doesnt it? if this instance gets bad, we migrate to another one, we dont need to abandon the entire platform like with centralized platforms like reddit.

[–] mmaramara@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.