Yup, an instance would be paid, but if someone wanted to launch a service of their own they totally could…they just won’t have the upstream features and the primary support from the paid instance.
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 months ago
I don’t quite see how paid and federated go together. Would only the users on that platform have to pay while others would be able to access it from their free instances?
PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Steve@communick.news 7 months ago
Yes exactly.
You can pay to fund the instance you use. To help ensure it’s worth the time of whoever is managing it.
It’s how Communick works. Or is hoped to work. It seems difficult for many fedicins to understand that developing the software and managing the hardware won’t ever be free. Someone needs to pay for it.
PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, that’s what I was hoping for. I’m a believer that money = value. If something or someone is valuable, it should be paid for and there’s nothing wrong with that.
I’m also a believer that you can operate in FOSS/Fedi-mode and still make money.