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What is the problem of having someone offering a service (social media hosting) at a fair price? There is virtually no way that we can have an universally accessible social media if we don’t have people paying for it.

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Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Paying for services is fine, profit is the problem. Covering costs is all I want. No need for any agenda or hidden user costs. Just providing a service that people actually want to use.

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Why is profit a problem? How do you account for the cost of the labor of the developers, or the time spent by volunteers?
  
  Just providing a service that people actually want to use.
  
  Why isn’t that deserving of profit?
  
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  - Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If we’re talking about my dream, that is my dream. A platform that isn’t trying to make money. It’s not wrong to want to make money, but a platform that is trying to make money isn’t my dream platform.
    
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    rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think that my argument here is that “the platform” doesn’t exist. The fediverser (much like the internet) is not made of one single entity that defines it’s direction.
    
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