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tough running a popular site w/o a business model

• capableweb 4y ago
  Indeed, seems there is absolutely no way of surviving unless you think about CASH FIRST! Certainly there is no examples such as Wikipedia, Open Collective, Archive.org or others, as they also clearly have very profitable business models and were started with that in mind.
  • michaelanckaert 4y ago
    The "issue" here is that this is an instance by friends that's growing too big. This isn't a business idea, or a platform, nor is it a venture or a company. Just like minded people who are on a shared instance. Public signups were open since it was doable. Then Twitter started crumbling (or not - I don't care) and user signups exploded. IMO the only correct way to handle this is to close public signups to your instance or require a fee from (new?) users. But there was no mistake on the admins part initially - they just ran a fun instance for a group of like minded people who shared interesting content to each other.