URL: https://free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-feeds-update-2-may-2025/
FOF is providing $50k of funding to the IndieSky project to support: running the group; funding initial R&D on infrastructure software, setup, and tooling; and supporting developers and commons infrastructure projects with small donations.
We are supporting the development of fully independent infrastructure that enables the development and running of social apps that can serve tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people. We want to see a social internet built on open protocols and interoperability – and it’s not just about having a great microblogging service like Bluesky, we want to see all kinds of social apps, search, news services and much more emerging from the community.
The community is full of talented developers who've already built amazing services with very little, if any, funding. But we're up against incredible odds and we can't win only on volunteer work of tiny bits of funding. People should be paid, services need to be resilient and products should be well-resourced. We need to be ambitious.