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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year agoI’m not into supporting alpha or beta versions, and honestly I don’t spend enough time here to justify a subscription fee. If it were more fully fleshed out and had a lot more of the niche communities I enjoy, you bet…$10 or even $20/year would be worth paying to support the servers.
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
Ok, we will start going in circles already, but isn’t that a bit of a “self-defeating prophecy”?
You say you like what it’s becoming, but you don’t want to support bootstrapping it. At the same time, history is showing us that any attempt to make the fediverse more popular is making the instances to crumble under their own weight because there is not strong backing after a certain size.
It’s $10/year that we are talking about here, not a life-changing investment. If everyone keeps expecting high-quality content and an already optimized system that is able to be a home of billions of internet users (because the only realistic way for you get all the niche communities here will be when there are so many people here to the point that makes even the long tail a sizable group), then we will never get it.
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
I understand the sentiment, but I can’t stop feeling that it is too self-centered. I certainly agree that we do not need a billion people on the Fediverse, but at the same time I feel some moral imperative to free the billion people that are stuck on Big Tech networks, and we need to build an alternative for them.