I'm convinced that the biggest thing the Free Software movement could do, is build a convenient voluntary payment model (and software implementing it very conve

I'm convinced that the biggest thing the Free Software movement could do, is build a convenient voluntary payment model (and software implementing it very conveniently). Right now, by far the most convenient model is ads/tracking - it's literally on every platform that respectively can display images/text and doesn't have extensive privacy features, which is basically every platform on the planet. And it's so convenient it requires zero clicks to pay with it! Ads/tracking cause the "you're not the user, you're the product" problem, which IMO is the reason why everything needs to be online - if you're offline, they can't send you ads or receive your data. And a proper user-based funding mechanism would also make corporate funding less necessary, which will enable Free Software devs to prioritize consumer users instead of having e.g. Canonical's "but most of our money comes from servers" problem that ends up de-emphasizing the desktop despite their best intentions.