Hi all, I'm relatively new to this instance but reading through the instance docs I found:
Donations are currently made using snowe’s github sponsors page. If you get another place to donate that is not this it is fake and should be reported to us.
Going to the sponsor page we see the following goal:
@snowe2010's goal is to earn $200 per month
pay for our 📫 SendGrid Account: $20 a month 💻 Vultr VPS for prod and beta sites: Prod is $115-130 a month, beta is $6-10 a month 👩🏼 Paying our admins and devops any amount ◀️ Upgrade tailscale membership: $6-? dollars a month (depends on number of users) Add in better server infrastructure including paid account for Pulsetic and Graphana. Add in better server backups, and be able to expand the team so that it's not so small.
Currently only 30% of the goal to break-even is being met. Please consider setting up a sponsorship, even if it just $1. Decentralized platforms are great but they still have real costs behind the scenes.
Note: I'm not affiliated with the admin team, just sharing something I noticed.
I deleted my 12 year old account over the latest privacy policy update which auto opted-in to using your data for unspecified AI purposes. There was some discussion here, and while a strava rep did give specific examples in their response, the privacy policy was not updated and continues to be both broad and auto opted-in with no way to opt out.
Regardless of the current use of AI, the broad privacy policy creates the potential to allow them to do many things with your data without telling you about it in the future. And that thread discusses some potential problematic uses that you could be opted into without ever knowing it.
The privacy policy needs to be more specific, and allow opting out (or better yet, make opt out the default).
And yeah, API change is pretty crap too.