The @shoots.green Community Development Trust is an attempt by me, @aendra.com, to improve the resilience and vibrancy of initiatives on the Bluesky social media platform, focusing especially on projects and organisations that seek to improve 2SLGBTQIA+ representation and safety.

For more information, please watch this talk I did at AtmosphereConf 2025:

Ændra Rininsland @aendra.com presents Supporting and growing ATproto development in 2025 and beyond "Monetizing custom feeds on Bluesky could be the single most effective way to support the growth and ongoing maintenance of community initiatives - and we can do it today!" #ATmosphereConf

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— AT Protocol Community (@atprotocol.dev) Mar 25, 2025 at 16:40

This site will be used to disclose all donations I make to orgs, as well as track monthly earnings from ad revenue. Note that this is a trust and not a non-profit; I’m currently not taking external donations and instead relying solely on graze.social ad income to fund projects.

I’m still in the process of incorporating the Trust; suffice to say I’m a software engineer by trade so this is sort of new territory for me. Please bear with me as a figure this all out. 💚

My hope is that over time the trust can be a reliable source of funding for initiatives. I know I’m starting small, but enormous trees grow from tiny green shoots.