Quick note that tchncs.de is powered by donations - because i am struggling time wise and with properly prioritizing my tasks. With the current "main" mix of tchncs.de, clients and midijob among other distractions from #life and other small stuff, I have reached (or crossed) a limit of what i can handle in that regard. The recent addition of a minijob failed and has me reflecting and reconsidering on how and why i got here and what to do about it. Some of you might already have noticed that i might answer late or even never (without an additional ping from you) for some requests, which for sure is nothing personal nor on purpose.
Until now was simply happy with costs being covered with even some additional amount of cash arriving, which by itself is quite amazing! But since i cannot furtherly increase my workload to earn more, a small increase of donating users (please not increasing donations by already donating users) would already be quite impactful for a more stable and secure income-stream. It would have me less worried and stressed about other sources of income that could break away due to me being unable to live up to expectations or because a bigger client would go away for internal reasons.
If tchncs serves you well, is part of your life for a while now and only if you can afford and really want it, please consider doing a monthly microdonation. I try to be most transparent so you can properly decide whether if or how much you want to throw into the hat, at ➡️ https://tchncs.de/donate
If you are donating already, thank you so much! Without you, tchncs.de could not have gotten this far, not even close to where its at now. ❤️
...also thanks @cronenthal, for your previous post
Thank you very much! I will try to update if there is anything notable happening - usually a post like this from me or by users, causes a spike in donations that goes away quickly again. It would be amazing if this one was an exception. :)
I totally agree with the busfactor part. The thing is tho that I do not have real life contacts that are skilled and trusted enough to help. However there is @thomas@metalhead.club (even tho we sadly don't know each other in real life yet), who actually has emergency access to some of the tchncs servers already. We really need to complete this. However one reason why i struggle to prioritize this, is that bad things already happened in the past when i granted admin access to a supposedly trustworthy person.
My issue is not tchncs in particular, at least i'd like to think that.. i am trying to figure that out, however, tchncs is something that happened organically over the course of more than 10 years at this point. It's the result of me discovering Linux and selfhosting and is practically my self-teaching journey. Everything like the remaining part time job and clients, all that came after or/and due to tchncs. It truely is part of my identity and i couldn't give that up easily.
Yeah i din't think of complete (=admin) access. Maybe that's a good thing to keep to oneself. There could be an inheritor which would gain access if ypu would abandon the project.
But regarding lower level administration (blocking stuff, checking that rules are followed and all that - things that take up most of the time of an administrator working in social media) could ve delegated maybe? Similar to reddit moderators of subreddits. It would be nice to have transparancy of which moderator moderates which other communities.
Maybe you could think of a way of finding some people in real life that could be a promising candidate.