@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt I think most people will dislike this answer, but... I assume that the "funding problem" is just a thing to accept about the world. That building ethical and liberating software is never going to be lucrative, and that actually, it cannot risk being lucrative. So how to make money (beyond keeping infra lights on) is very fundamentally the wrong question. The right question is: how do you make a complete stack of useful software on a budget of shoestrings and spare change? This isn't defeatist, it's guerrilla. It goes hand in hand with my belief that software should be small. And also that most "hard problems" are just wrong - like, web browsers are a blight upon our reality at the requirements level, before you even start taking implementation, although they're a "necessary evil" to interact with our current infrastructure.