Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

Re:Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup ea... by Max_aaa on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:51PM (#23195854)

How would the project sustain itself? (Hardware and hosting costs)

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Re:Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup ea... by ShamelessC on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:06PM (#23196076)

I'd honestly appreciate this enough to pay a subscription for it if there was a policy that meant the subscription fee was explicitly to avoid needing revenue from shady business.

I believe fastmail is like that.

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Re:Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup ea... by pwdisswordfish2 on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:07PM (#23196087)

Begging and government grants, like Wikipedia?

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Re:Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup ea... by pkaye on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:38PM (#23197120)

So why doesn't Mozilla go for government grants instead of getting money promoting Google Search?

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Re:Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup ea... by hawski on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:00AM (#23202085)

There would be drastically less content and the whole operation could be easier, because you probably don't have to worry so much about spam websites. That would keep it low cost already, not single DigitalOcean droplet cheap, but I think it could be sustained from a programmers pocket initially.

Donations/patreon for one, then subscriptions. It should be possible to offer a contentless index for download (I estimate it could be around 50-200GB) and that could be a paid option.

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