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Isn’t that the same for Reddit or Lemmy? The content creators and mods don’t see a penny either. Operationally, a social network probably requires a lot more compute power and somewhat more bandwidth compared to a site that serves mostly static content. But I don’t see why small donations shouldn’t cover that. The cost per user seems moderate, otherwise few people could afford to run an instance with 1000s of users without charging them.

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

(on reddit) content creators and mods don’t see a penny either.

Yeah, but since when is this considered fair? Facebook has one million faults, but at the very least they pay their moderation and safety teams.

The cost per user seems moderate, otherwise few people could afford to run an instance with 1000s of users without charging them.

Is there any donation-based instance where the admins can make a living out of their labor? Even mastodon.social with more than 6 million users can only manage to have two developers on payroll, and they pay themselves a ridiculously low salary.

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