Definitely a difficult task. Thinking more of a service fee for storage space or faster transcoding maybe. IDK we're still figuring it out. Also checking with an accountant about maybe being able to do a revenue share or something for content creators. All very much a work in progress though.
underline960@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Where’s the revenue coming from? The content creators paying to store their own videos?
ozoned@piefed.social 4 days ago
It's just an idea at the moment. I don't know if it's feasbile, practical, or even allowed legally. Hence why I have to talk to my accountant.
But my idea is to generate income either through donations, funding drives, sponsors in the banner, etc. Or to do like a service where you can upload X amount of videos for $/month.
Then once we've hit break even, assuming we do (yes I know this is a difficult task atm), to share the additional revenue with content creators.
underline960@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Shouldn’t you have talked to them before starting the non-profit?
I do not claim to have any expertise (and defo not an accountant), but that sounds backwards to me.
ozoned@piefed.social 4 days ago
I already have some folks interested in joining. I didn't want it to be attached to me as a personal entity, so no. I don't think it's backwards. You can't ask people to come to a restaurant that doesn't exist yet.
Maybe it is. I've never run a business. So this might all flop. But I have to try at least. I personally believe the Fediverse is the next evolution of the web. And we need to help it where ever we can.