Who pays for Twitter ? Who said anything about the Fediverse having to be free ? There is absolutely no doubt that should Twitter die, if no single actor can

Who pays for Twitter ? Who said anything about the Fediverse having to be free ? There is absolutely no doubt that should Twitter die, if no single actor can emerge quickly enough, for-profit actors will emerge and they will have all good reasons to be compatible with something that already exists. There will be mega large instances paid by siphoning data and with ads, there will be large instances paid by users/funds/donations, there will be small, community instances. Maybe HN will have its own instance; how much do you pay for HN today ?