Sense, Nonsense, and Not-Sense

Excellent summary, and I agree, especially on the privileged vs. needy axis.

I think I can boil down when I get ornery about "shilling" for money for creative works to a single thing: making it hard for me to read various streams in social media. I have no experience with Facebook, so I'm just talking about Twitter and Mastodon/Pleroma/"the fediverse" here.

I've had people on my friends timeline that I've had to mute (or remove entirely!) because they retweet, boost, or re-post their plea for money/interaction/involvement 3-5 times a day, consistently for more than a week at a time.

Ask for money with every new thing you release, sure. Do so a few times even, evenly spaced. Perhaps ask for money during a dry spell to help you get more creative ("I need to do some field research - help pay for my trip!")

But 4x daily? There's a reason many of us out here started using ad blockers. At some point you move from "persistent" to "annoying," and that's a problem.

I have some nitpicks around the OSS argument, primarily because the general tenor of many of these communities (if not DW) is changing, and sustainability outside of corporate influence is becoming an issue - but I'll leave that for another post.