Yeah I donated specifically in hopes of helping ernest live off kbin

Yes of course. We agree.

Oh I see. Yeah, there could be a feature (a browser addon would work too) that reads the webpage meta data before opening it, and pops a “Open in kbin/lemmy/whatever?” window.

What interface are you using now? I’m responding to this thread from kbin.social instance usin kbin webclient

Yeah, I see others pointed out lemmyverse.net . I think separation between Lemmy instances and other Fediverse (ActivityPub) instances is arbitrary and creates needless fragmentation. So yeah I’m gonna have to check out Lemmyverse but I meant the whole Fediverse.

Oh, ok. I thought it was because it’s mentioned in kbin.pub

Alright I thought the alpha version was already in google play store, so that’s why I wondered

I don’t think you get my point. I’m not advocating to relicense kbin code or make it closed. Everyone will always be free to fork and make their own kbin-like client if they’re unhappy with the original. I’m also not suggesting taking kbin off Fediverse.

Right now, I think only 1 person has complete power over the domain kbin.pub, and the git repository. So that is as centralized as it gets. Same thing with the kbin.social instance, but I’d like to keep administration of the kbin project sepatate from the kbin.social fediverse instance (both can live without the other). I’d like the current main kbin client project (the only?) to get proper administration and financing.

Having a foundation/non-profit is easy and virtually free of fees. Small-time hobbyist sports clubs of like 10 people often have a nonprofit to manage the (small) finances of the group where I live. Kbin has potential to be a very big player in the post-reddit times, with millions of users. I don’t know what ernest does for living but it wouldn’t take much money to pay him full-time for Kbin development, but that would be the kind of expenses I was thinking (and later small-time marketing)