Bountysource was owned by a company called The Blockchain Group and it looks like the parent company went bankrupt taking Bountysource down with them. Its hard to say if Bountysource could have survived if it wasn't sold to some cryptocurrency companies.
People were using this service to put up money to encourage programmers working on open-source software to fix specific bugs that were especially bothering them. For instance, if text in software X didn't scale properly and that was a problem for you, you could use this service to offer $100 to programmers working on X to fix the text scaling. Once they got it fixed, they collected the money.
The service went bankrupt.
When it went bankrupt, some programmers didn't get their promised payment for bugs they had fixed.
The money didn't get returned to the people who had paid for the bug to be fixed, either.
So now both programmers and users have lost money because of this service, and everyone's ticked off.
That’s incredibly scummy. If it were huge corporations, it would be a rounding error no one would care about, but this is OSS community members we’re talking about
In 2017, the project was purchased by the cryptocurrency company CanYa, and in 2020 it was sold to “The Blockchain Group”. Coincidently, around this time, the Bountysource project announced drastic changes to its terms of service, enabling them to steal unclaimed bounties after two years
There are good reasons not to federate, Legality is kinda murkey when it comes to stuff like this. Federation could (not saying it would) be used as a weapon against them. I mean, there are all sorts of instances on the federated networks, many of which do not comply with US law. Not just the real shitty stuff, But even instances that just don't care about DMCA for instance. It could simply be that Federation is just way too much of a hassle, which I really couldn't blame them. I did try to host my own federated service instance and it was just kinda too much.
nah, there are plenty of truth wannabes (freeze peach bigotry safe havens) that actively federate. just look at literally any competent server's blocked instances list and you'll see a few examples. there's a reason why nobody* runs completely open federation
*: aside from people who're friendly with that crowd ofc
From the end of the blogpost @ (https://boehs.org/node/truth-social): "Once again, this was absolutely not the outcome I expected. Some people might be disappointed by it. I might be relieved. After I sent that email, I was a little worried about what I was getting myself into. The Truth Social Legal Team. Imagine. But it went my way. The real takeaway is that you do have power. Don’t be scared of the big guys. Speak their language, play on their court. Stand up for what you believe in. You can win. Finally, I want to thank Truth Social for complying appropriately. While we couldn’t be further apart politically, I respect that they followed the law in a timely manner without a fight."
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