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> With no income potential. Why is there no income potential? It seems to me that if Mastodon grows, there’s lots of income potential.
by criddell 4y ago
> With no income potential.
Why is there no income potential? It seems to me that if Mastodon grows, there’s lots of income potential.
- prmoustache 4y agoI guess what he means is that the software itself doesn't provide any management for payment/subscription for access or features nor any advertising management.
- rvz 4y ago> It seems to me that if Mastodon grows, there’s lots of income potential. That is 7 years of "If", and all we get is instance takeovers, [0] where companies buy and own the users on multiple instances from the admins. If you are an admin with 1M registered users, you can sell them to the highest bidder. If you are a user, you get nothing. So much for the nonsense of "Social networking that's not for sale" as a tag line. [0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mask-network-acquires-pawoonet-one-of-the-largest-mastodon-instances-301707919.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mask-network-acquir...