* The 10 ppl I referred to are our paid employees who've been generously funded by our community. We also have 20 great volunteers
* My responses may not be a full 2-minutes, depending & may be filmed (tastefully) while in bed, the bath, out walking/with no makeup!
* As well as answering serious questions, I'm game to answer silly questions, personal questions, unrelated questions or joke questions, anything that is in good faith
* I may even answer trolls or smear merchants
* I will not answer anything that would violate anyones privacy
* I intend to continue answering questions til we meet our fundraising target for this development phase
* You need to watch the video & follow the instructions in it if you want your question answered :)
Let's have fun with this!
$40,755 to go!
Thank you to those already posting questions. I want to get proper captioning for accessibility from the team (better than my rudimentary initial attempt) so please allow 24-36 hours for my answers to your questions to be posted on this thread.
See you soon :)))
Thank you everyone - great to see questions coming in. Just finishing dev meetings, off to digital media meetings soon, then I'll be filming and posting answers throughout the evening :)))
Question #1: Will I be able to find my favourite Twitter peeps on Panquake?
Answer is in the vid below.
Thank you for your donation!
P.S. This was filmed after an 18 hour work day so please be understanding/kind ;)
Question #2: What motivated your decision to create Panquake?
Tonight the @pan_quake Community was called on to hit our GoGetFunding.com/panquake Beta Development target by June 26th. An ambitious target but an important one. Why? Because we revealed that doing so will trigger Beta Delivery & Support phase. That means: Panquake in your hands!
The major success of April's fundraising meant in May, we brought on multiple new devs & as you'll see in the tweets that follow, those devs have performed so well that we are currently ahead of our production schedule. More project funds directly translates into faster delivery!
Lots of people wondering why I've been so quiet - I'm really sorry, the truth is because I have been heads down & tails up with the development team for hours and hours every single day building the greatest social media application we've ever seen, for you all! We progress daily
...and often when my head and my focus is constantly immersed in technical detail like that, the outside world blurs and the days melt into one another and my awareness centers around build requirements & delivery deadlines (which I never, ever miss as I'm sure you've noticed!)
In the not too distant future, someone far cooler, more adept, more interesting & better at the role than me will become the public face of @pan_quake & I'm really excited for that.
In the meantime, I'm building them & you all a product that lives up to all promises & beyond <3
I think the Fediverse is a wonderful thing. That's why I've ensured @pan_quake will be interoperable with it. PQ will contribute to the strength & growth of the Fediverse.
But those telling you that the Fediverse is "free" are lying to your face.
While being promoted as free, paid Fediverse hosting services are attractive to some users precisely because of the hardware costs, technical know-how barrier & ongoing funds required if you self-host instances. The more users in your instance the higher the costs you must meet.
Better worded: while the Fediverse is promoted as "free" participating in it often isn't free at all. Nor is it effortless. Should we invest effort in obtaining digital freedom? Absolutely. Is the Fediverse better than Big Tech? Vastly. But barriers to mainstream adoption remain.
As usual, we kicked it off by reviewing the updated campaign statistics for the last 4 weeks.
Huge news that THANKS TO YOU! we now have 4 full time development contractors & 1 part time paid contractor working very hard daily to deliver this groundbreaking next gen product
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Remember last month when we announced 3 new marketing projects? We've delivered on all 3.
The first short thematic vid premiered at the end of the event & will be up on Instagram & other social media shortly.
On the surface, I'm the target of the lies but in truth, we all are.
Because I am live-blogging my response, please periodically update the page to see new content. It may take several hours to complete. Once finished, I will present the key evidences in the below thread.
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OK, here we go. The article is finished - for now - and here is the tl;dr thread as promised.
How to become a beloved mainstream liberal politician:
1. Smile no matter what you're saying 2. Embrace Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, & every other war criminal you meet 3. Secretly facilitate US-led drone bombing "missions" & kill POC daily
4. Use "diversity" as a cover for reinforcing the military industrial complex & your business-as-usual (ie. killing for $$) stance 5. Spend tens of millions of dollars of public money on PR campaigns to teach people how great you are, then celebrate your greatness at every chance
6. Advance "total awareness" intelligence agency agendas, violating your citizen's homes, schools, workplaces, vehicles, streets with ubiquitous spying hardware & software at a level that would put China to shame 7. Make your citizenry a police force, turning them upon each other