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What is stopping an admin unwilling to “give away their labor for free” from doing so?

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.

Yes, of course. Sysadmins, developers, moderators, Fediverse advocates, active posters, even commenters deserve something, as every of those roles make the platform alive.

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.

Where is this money we supposedly all deserve going to come from?

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”.

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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.

Rhetorical tricks

I did make my position clear many times, you just don’t want to understand it.

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah, you made it clear that you:
  
  do not value the work of the admins
  
  can only see meaning in a “free” social media platform if it means "free of charge"
  
  think that a small business provider providing hosting for open source systems is as bad as Big Tech/Corporate/VC funded ones
  
  see volunteered work as as opportunity to excuse yourself from giving a meaningful contribution
  
  think you should be paid for participating
  
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  - Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You made clear that you
    
    only use the Fediverse as a way to create a business for yourself
    
    don’t care about this platform with its horrible crab mentality
    
    think that a 50k community has enough resources to sustain the full time salaries of dozens of developers and sysadmins
    
    discredit community building while you complain that people don’t come to your communities or instances
    
    think that community moderation and building doesn’t add value to the platform
    
    Two can play that game
    
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    rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    the fact that you think that “creating a business” is bad says more about you than me. And I don’t want a business “just for me”. I am looking for a sustainable way where many people can work in tech and create technology that does not exploit the users, but this will never happen if the people working are expected to do it from free and still figure out how to make rent.
    
    not quite, see above. I don’t particularly care about the individuals and I certainly wish to change the prevailing culture. I am not here to have any significant impact on people individually and I am not concerned about “being nice”. I do care about finding one platform that can be sustainable and universally accessible, though.
    
    no, but I think that the LW users do have the resources to allow Ruud to work full-time on Fediverse stuff, but for some reason there are 18k users there who think it is okay to exploit his free labor.
    
    pick a lane: do you think that “community building” is a job, or not? Are you participating here as a service to others or do you out of personal enjoyment? If you want to be paid for it, then state your value and tell me how much you think your work is worth.
    
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