Thanks for making it clear that you are evading giving your straightforward opinion for the following statements:

• Free Software Developers deserve to be paid for their work, regardless of the “price tag” or license fees.
• People working in free software should treat their craft as a hobby.
• The work of system administrators (setting up the systems, ensuring it is secure, managing backups, keeping it up to date, implementing improvements, etc) is valuable and should be properly compensated.
• If someone is offering to run and manage a server without asking a priori for any form of payment, then this means that all their work is altruistic and they should not be compensated for it.
• One Individual using a platform and actively promoting it is as important as one developer of the platform.
• One individual using a platform and actively promoting it is as important as the admin of one server running the platform.
• If there were no “volunteer run” instances, I would run my own and bear all the costs to operate it.
• People that are still using the traditional social media networks should know better. If they haven’t left yet, they deserve everything bad that happens to them there.
• It’s perfectly acceptable and ethical for any company that provides an utility (water, heating, electricity, phone, internet) to expect a profit.
• It’s perfectly acceptable and ethical for a indie game developer to charge a monthly fee from the users while they are working on it.
• In a world where the big social media companies (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook) were provably serving the interests of the users and not its investors (no data exploitation, no promotion of corporate agenda, using and promoting open standards for interoperation, no forced walled garden and artificial scarcity) and changed their business model to a simple monthly subscription fee, I would still not use them.
• In a world where the big social media companies were provably serving the interests of the users and not its investors, I would only use it if I did not have to pay and they relied on other forms of revenue to run their service, e.g, non-invasive advertisements.