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How much money are you ready to donate for Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed to succeed? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Repost of a previous thread on !ask@lemm.ee: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33116369?scrollToComments=true

Just came out of a discussion when someone was arguing that β€œif everyone here would pay $10-20 per year, the whole platform would be completely different”, but that seemed quite unrealistic to me.

What do you think?

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[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I read this interesting article : https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-much-does-the-fediverse-cost/

That's a good idea. I believe we need to tackle on fediverse sustainability as wikipedia do. We can discuss on various way to support it. Not everyone has the budget to support every services and cost : phone bill, rent, internet bill...

And there are 3 things to support :

  • the server + domain name
  • the backup (more exactly sysadmin relay)
  • its developpment (the software)

So i believe in a mix of users and public fund along a collective NGO organisation as https://chatons.org/ would guarantee long term service. Or we all switch to p2p as scuttlebutt.

Collective organisation will allow more cooperation between sysadmin, users and help us to defend our network, maybe shared cost. For example domain name as joinmastodon, joinpiefed...we could regroup them.

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Instances should simply add ads.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago

With everyone here running an ad blocker, not sure how beneficial that would be

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This would make me leave the fediverse because then survailance capitalism takes it over. We have that already with reddit, Instagram and threads, if someone likes ads so much they can go there.

[–] End0fLine@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m not advocating for this, and I would rather just donate, but how would you feel about ads that are in no way targeted? Or maybe ads that target the sub you view them in and not per user?

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 points 2 days ago

If I'm really really honest, If I can't pay for not seeing ads or can't block them then I am just not using that service. I know I'm extreme but I just can't for the love of god stand advertisement. I've unsubscribed of so many podcasts because I figured out they would have ads and no way of getting rid of them for example.

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

That seems extreme. There will always be another instance out there without ads, and ads can always be blocked, and not all ads employ tracking and privacy invasive measures.

[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

I'm against.