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I'm stunned that people still today don't realize that there is no, big and centralized free services. How would that work on the company side? Who pays for gia

• wafflesraccoon 8y ago
  |...there is no, big and centralized free services. Wikipedia?
  • some_account 8y ago
    They are practically begging for donations. I wouldn't be surprised if they pay the bills from their own pockets.
• wdewind 8y ago
  I resent the "not too sharp" comment, and the implication that I hadn't even considered the idea that you're paying with your data coming from all three of you. I'll respond here to all of you that responded generally with "you pay with your data, it's not free." Ok fine, but you don't know what you're paying with on Mastodon, because you have no idea what any one node might do with your data, because there is no centralized privacy policy. Not a problem, I'm sure you read the privacy policy of every website you join right? I'm also not sure why you assume a free, ad-based Mastodon service wouldn't exist as the network scaled. The network has like 100k active users. It's very much in 'virtue untested' territory.
  • 40four 8y ago
    That's fair it was a smart ass-ed comment, didn't mean to offend, but that one was tee'd up there, couldn't resist :) I haven't tried Mastadon yet, but the fact I can run my own server for my family or close friends at a very low cost seems very appealing. To me this seems like the most likely use case, I can't imagine just going around joining random nodes, so I'm not too woried about the "virtue" of the whole network. I'm happy to know that there is a solid, open source option like this out there.