Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like?
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
I don’t see why the Fediverse can’t be run as non-profit and by volunteers. We are 8 billion people on this planet. I’m sure we can handle it.
We can and we are.
It’s just that useful idiots have been convinced that nobody does anything because they actually want to do it.
To them, the only reason to do something is to make money from it or distract them from bigger issues. It’s why their lives only consist of working and playing video games.
The problem is if you run as volunteer only you can only recruit from people who are socioeconomically privileged enough to volunteer. Having a revenue model isn’t always about making a single person rich, it can be about being able to properly compensate people for their time, knowledge and experience who otherwise would not be able to because other responsibilities prevent them from it.
Mio@feddit.nu 1 month ago
I agree. Look at email servers. It just works out. Email server owners don’t look at the content. They just host the servers. Both protocols are federates.
Forums will most likely be driven by the community and volunteers. Just lets move everyone over to the fediverse. Then it should be easier to find such people.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
But do you remember how they monetized email
commander@lemmings.world 1 month ago
They…? If you choose to pay for something you can be getting for free, it’s kind of your fault for being a useful idiot.
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Yeah, the largest email company is probably Google (maybe Microsoft). Google definitely looks at every email they receive for users!
Mio@feddit.nu 1 month ago
I don’t use Gmail. There are plenty of email providers out there that is completely free without ads and privacy focused. Mailfence, Tutanota, ProtonMail etc. Personally I use my ISP provider that is actually pro privacy - Bahnhof . That due it is a niche and if you don’t save logs you don’t have the log storage cost.
If feddit.nu (only 50 users) did not exist I would have chosen to self-host it on the free Oracle VPS teir.