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I'm not sure it is that interesting, it makes sense. Twitter is a huge organization optimized for reach and earning money by serving its audience ads, with big
by capableweb 4y ago
I'm not sure it is that interesting, it makes sense. Twitter is a huge organization optimized for reach and earning money by serving its audience ads, with big structure around all of that.
While Fosstodon is a more of loose collective of people spending their free time trying to run a free service for a community around FOSS, with optimizations geared towards making the service itself cheap to run but still resilient and performant.
That they end up at different costs per user at that scale (or even more) makes a lot of sense in my head.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoI find the actual figures interesting. We tend to imagine that to run a web service you have to run ads, but it sounds like all the work required to build out that infrastructure adds so much cost that offering a donation supported service with no ads may be more viable now.