> How much would it cost to fund an open source alternative ecosystem? It already exists in the form of the Fediverse. You have alternatives to twitter (mastod

> How much would it cost to fund an open source alternative ecosystem? It already exists in the form of the Fediverse. You have alternatives to twitter (mastodon), reddit (lemmy), youtube (peertube), instagram (pixelfed) and others, all interconnected but distributed, open source, and without ads. Apparently it costs less than 100$ a month to run a fairly large instance, but I imagine that cost would grow as the Fediverse as a whole continues growing. It's not without its downsides, but it's there.