they have a lot of options for sales. they can sell their service and run a not-for-profit enterprise.
surviving on online donations is extremely rare. In their case, they are not getting that many impressions, so $1-$5 donations won't cover their expenses. Think of how expensive even a single customer like Gentoo would be if they fully migrated -- how many Gentoo contributors would have to contribute money to cover Gentoo hosting.
I'm sure they have a sales pipeline planned, and similar to Facebook, they don't want to kill the buzz with sales before they build their audience.
I was there for the original thread making the connection so I got a very fresh look at the profile. The user was consistently referring to being in dental school. A lot of posting, and not in ways that would influence opinions. Maybe a cover for more secretive mod actions, but it'd be a wastefully excessive cover.
Other mods knew them personally and were still in contact. The user claims they heard of the rumor and decided not to reactivate for the lulz.
I am not familiar with the mod side of reddit - couldn't fellow mods audit her mod action logs to find more juicy details we would have heard about by now?
If Maxwell is indeed a spy and doing what she is claimed to do, it is highly unlikely that she'd put her last name and a reference to her specific family's property in her username. This would be a glaringly arrogant choice for someone who had been groomed from an early age for spycraft, and who had any degree of oversight.
If she were part of a spy network, they would be highly remiss not to commandeer the account at the time of her arrest to avoid suspicion unless they were completely incompetent.
I am mostly familiar with cold war espionage so it just doesn't sound like the general MO to me. Unless Opsec or whatever has badly decayed since then. That's not impossible.
The mentions of the account in the files are from anonymous tips, some of which are highly absurd. They vetted a lot of tips, and I saw no information in the new releases indicating they thought it held water. We've seen the subpoena and IP tracking for the Epstein prison guard whistleblower, but no such thing on this topic.
We use it at work and everybody I asked loves it. I also recently moved my personal data to Nextcloud from Google Drive and it's been extremely pleasant to use
In my opinion, for a Git forge, switching to any other main source of income would almost certainly lead to some form of enshitification
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