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I still don't see how would you make people pay because as it stands most, if not all, big servers are purely run on donations. And as I was looking around the
by haunter 4y ago
I still don't see how would you make people pay because as it stands most, if not all, big servers are purely run on donations. And as I was looking around the software itself doesn't support ads or promoted posts.
I liked the idea of Mastodon but if it ever gets big (which is also a interesting considering 6 years in the biggest server still doesn't have 1m users [0]) then I can't see people paying for it, just like how most people don't pay for Twitter, Discord, or reddit or for email to give a federated example.
0, https://instances.social/mastodon.social https://instances.social/mastodon.social
- schmichael 4y agoI think there's a few options here: 1. Ad supported high scale instances like email has gmail, hotmail, etc. 2. Silo'd instances like if all of the NWS accounts, or even all of the US federal government accounts, moved to their own instance. I think ideally a little of both would happen with lots of folks still happy to use their own instance or a donation based one.
- jacooper 4y agoThe German government is already doing 2, they have their own Activitypub instance.