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> including being entirely user-supported with no investors or ads What are your plans when user-supported revenue is not enough to keep the servers running?
by perfectstorm 7y ago
> including being entirely user-supported with no investors or ads
What are your plans when user-supported revenue is not enough to keep the servers running?
- Deimorz 7y agoThe current level of donations is already over 5x what's needed to pay for the server expenses, and it can probably handle 100x the traffic. "Sustainable" is a much easier goal than needing to be worth billions of dollars to make your investors happy.
- Scoundreller 7y agoI’m still surprised that I can’t donate my resources toward a distributed DB/web server for this kind of content. E.g. by subscribing, I automatically start serving content and/or augmenting other mirrors. As some channels I subscribe to become stale, I automatically start re-assigning my resources to keep it alive. Basically a BitTorrent/Tor-like decentralized system for distribute DBs with a web front end. The amount of server resources I consume from fora must be 1/10000th the excess CPU/HD/bandwidth capacity I have. I’m sure some cryptocoin project is working on something like this.
- rolleiflex 7y agoHa, I’m working on this. It’s called Aether: http://getaether.net http://getaether.net. You contribute bandwidth / cpu / storage by being a peer on the network. It’s less Medium and more Slashdot / Reddit though.