dex(@dexhorthy):great post by @seldo on the front page of hackernews today - how NOT to get OSS maintainers paid (and how we might actually do it in a sustainable way) https://t.co/kvIwQJgRw0 am I the only one from whom this rhymes with social media creator payouts? The content network (X, Youtube, Tiktok, etc) incentivizes creators to publish "valuable" content to their network because it improves the value of the network to users, which means more eyeballs, more ad revenue. what are the parallels? What are the differences? If registries pay maintainers, those costs land on consumers - what stops some other registry from spinning up that doesn't? interesting few years for oss in either case

2026.09.20 23:07

great post by @seldo on the front page of hackernews today - how NOT to get OSS maintainers paid (and how we might actually do it in a sustainable way) am I the only one from whom this rhymes with social media creator payouts? The content network (X, Youtube, Tiktok, etc) incentivizes creators to publish "valuable" content to their network because it improves the value of the network to users, which means more eyeballs, more ad revenue. what are the parallels? What are the differences? If registries pay maintainers, those costs land on consumers - what stops some other registry from spinning up that doesn't? interesting few years for oss in either case