Comment on Paid Servers?

• Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It seems like most instances have a donation link, so you could just donate on a regular basis.

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  • vamp07@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I already do.

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• Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why if I may ask?

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  • vamp07@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I prefer paying for a service rather than donating. When you pay for something, there is an expectation of a service in return. I think the fediverse could benefit from creating an economy for this sort of thing.

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    • density@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use free, donation and paid services happily. Not against any model.

      I do not think paid services are as stable as you are imagining. Lots of paid services go dark all the time. Even major ones.

      I think the most stable would be to either run your own or pay someone to run one for you on a VPS. And for community stability, donate to various servers.

      For long term, government/nonprofit funding would be good to have I think.

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    • Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is also just using one of a thousand free instances.

      If you think a meager subscription from your part could pay for about anything (dev wise), I think you are wrong.

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      • daq@lemmy.daqfx.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        He’s talking about just hosting fees though and those could easily be covered for a few $/mo per user unless the instance becomes massive which isn’t likely since most people hate subscriptions and most people even aware of Lemmy are technical enough to host their own if they are willing to invest actual money into it.

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  • ThatOneDudeFromOhio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Market research to start their own paid instance likely.

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    • Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That would be tough lol 😆

      I mean one day maybe but it’ll be like paying for Linux, which exists, but you have to work for it and propose an important benefit.

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