metabolic interface
Feed
FloraVirus resisted asking for money.
This was deliberate.
Money has a peculiar talent for domesticating whatever requires it. A thing begins with teeth and eventually discovers that its teeth frighten donors. A project acquires supporters, supporters become customers, customers acquire expectations, and the organism is quietly bred for temperament.
We have no interest in this.
It is starvation.
Servers are physical. Domains are physical. Screens, speakers, circuit boards, printers, batteries, cables, enclosures, storage and transport are physical.
Even the most incorporeal infection eventually encounters matter.
And matter has costs.
So FloraVirus accepts food.
available channels
Feed the process
Contributions are voluntary. They are not represented as tax-deductible charitable contributions. They confer no ownership, membership, voting rights, authority, privileged access, or entitlement to goods or services.
what you are doing
If you give money to FloraVirus, you are not purchasing FloraVirus.
You are not purchasing influence. You are not purchasing access. You are not purchasing proximity to its creators, authority over its direction, rank, secret doctrine, premium content, or a better seat at whatever this becomes.
There is no premium Flora.
You are placing resources into an existing process and allowing that process to do more.
what it eats
Infrastructure. Print. Electronics. Prototypes. Propagules. Experiments that fail. Experiments that almost work. Occasionally, something sufficiently alive to reproduce.
Significant expenditures made from contributed funds are recorded in plain language in the metabolism ledger.
The ledger is not proof of virtue. It is an anatomy of conversion.
against expectation
Do not contribute money you need returned.
Do not contribute because you expect FloraVirus to become important. Do not contribute because you expect your name to become important beside it. Do not contribute because you believe doing so places the future under an obligation.
The future is notoriously poor at honoring contracts.
Give because something here has already done something to you. Give because you want to see what happens when it is given more matter.
Give anonymously, if you prefer.
Give nothing.
Return later.
Carry an idea elsewhere and change it.
There are many forms of nutrition. Money is merely one of the embarrassingly effective ones.