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Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

with more than $1-2 per year. ;)

More than my own share for sure, regardless of the result of the other argument.

why don’t you wish that everyone did the same?

I do. But a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

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Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

But a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

Indeed. We are already struggling to get users and content, adding a paywall would probably kill the platform

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

The idea is to get rid of “instances with open registrations”. It doesn’t mean that paywalled instances are the only way to achieve that.

We can have more people running their own small servers to share with their friends

We can have companies providing ActivityPub accounts to customers of their services (e.g, sign-up to the NYT and get access to any of the servers managed by Mastodon GmbH)

We can have companies operating their own AP servers for their employees

We can have phone/internet companies giving access to their AP servers as long as they have a contract or a positive balance on the top-up

We can have “pay it forward” instances: admins put up donations, but they explicitly declare how much they want per active user account. The instance only accepts new registrations when it has secured the resources.
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