Again, paying out to cover hardware costs is not the same as supporting the admins.
That’s your opinion. Do you really believe that if admins were unhappy with the current situation, they would keep “working for free” instead of shutting down the instances and moving on with their lives? What is stopping an admin unwilling to “give away their labor for free” from doing so?
I’m not asking what you think is “realistic”. I’m asking whether you think admins should be compensated for their work.
The realism is the part you are missing? Do I think that everyone here should be paid for their work? Yes, of course. Sysadmins, developers, moderators, Fediverse advocates, active posters, even commenters deserve something, as every of those roles make the platform alive.
And you know that well as you are usually complaining no one posts on your communities or instances.
But stating that doesn’t bring us anywhere. Where is this money we supposedly all deserve going to come from? Nowhere, because there is none. Or actually there is, but just enough to cover the server costs.
acknowledge the value of the work done by admins and developers.
Do you see the Photon, Voyager, Mbin, Piefed developers going around like you treating the whole platform as crabs? Of all of the instance admins, you’re the only one having this discourse.
It’s not the employees of tech companies who complain about poor pay. Quite the opposite.
How much money can a 50k community can provide?
And the reason that Lemmy can not grow past 50k users is because the Fediverse is stuck on a horrible culture where they refuse to even acknowledge that the work of admins and developers is valuable, so those with the skills that could take the Fediverse to the next level are not going to be sacrificing themselves to serve a bunch of people who think they are entitled to free work from others just because they themselves are not able to do it.
If the Fediverse is such a horrible culture, why are you still here? Why don’t you just create a startup, get some venture capital investments, create your superior social media platform, and then share it with us?
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
Again, you are going at this backwards.
Instead of asking yourself why the network can reach a few million users even when admins are unpaid, you should be wondering how much bigger the network would be if the current users appropriately invested in the ecosystem.
Amazing. By equating the value of the work provided by admins and developers (which you can not do) to the work of “Fediverse advocates and active posters” (which you want to do) you create a false equivalence that you think excuses you from giving full credit to others.
You said you did not respond to the original statements because “it would take too much time”. Now, you spent more time trying to find a reasonable justification for your unwillingness to acknowledge the higher value of someone else’s contribution and you still didn’t give a straight out answer and resort to rhetorical tricks.
First: who is “we”, here? Are you really implying that you should be getting money by participating?
Second: the money exists. You and many others can pay $10-20 / year for the service being provided to you. The problem is that you (and many others) do not want to acknowledge the value of the work and refuse to contribute beyond “covering the cost of hardware”.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Actually, you’re right, I don’t have time for this. People will read this conversation and make their own minds.
I did make my position clear many times, you just don’t want to understand it.
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
Yeah, you made it clear that you:
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
You made clear that you
Two can play that game