Thank you for sharing the links! I just signed to one of them.
I am also surprised how much money they were able to raise. I hope they deliver on the things they promised
Comment on Does Bonfire have any public instances?
rimu@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Not really anything serious.
By poking around https://bonfire.fediverse.observer/list I found two (and only two) with open sign ups that do not say “demo and testing instance":
Try:
https://discussions.sciety.org/
It’s kinda amazing to me how they convinced so many people to give them money when that is all they have. I guess people want to have hope.
Twoafros@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
wjs018@piefed.social 16 hours ago
€30,000! I was stunned when I just pulled up their crowdfunding campaign. Apparently that is enough money for software “maintenance”. I think you have severely underpaying me for my contributions to PieFed if that is the going rate. 😜
rimu@crust.piefed.social 15 hours ago
I know, right.
After they’ve finished doing maintenance no one will be able to see any visible difference and will just have to believe them when they ask for more money. They were upfront about that so maybe it’ll go ok but yeah seems risky as hell.