you know, I’m strongly in favour of attempts at novel ways to fund open-source development, because there’s still significant issues to be solved there. but

1. ugh god really? this thing is some awfully halfwitted dogshit even by the standards of the coiners
2. fucking rage

not that I mean to praise the attempt here, to be clear. it is, of course, utter and complete bullshit. that it latches on to this particular problem irks me even more.

it also leaves me wondering whether this type of problem/parasitism (at this tier of scale attempt, perhaps?) has a long lineage? previously there were things like dns alt roots, which occasionally got some under-informed/unlucky suckers, but this kind of low-effort attempt at intermediating themselves as tollmen isn’t something I know of past analogues to