Is there a solution to make the whole ecosystem mature and professional?
Certainly having everyone on one instance isn’t the way to go.
Comment on [Instance] Kbin.run down
rglullis@communick.news 5 weeks ago
Ok. I have to ask: how many instances will have to go down before the majority of you drop the “you can always hop around to the next one” mentality and start thinking about ways to make the whole ecosystem more mature and professional?
MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
rglullis@communick.news 5 weeks ago
We could have a constellation of smaller service providers, like we do for email nowadays. Everyone talks about Gmail+Outlook having 80% of the market, but we all forget that the tail still exists and that is made of hundreds of independent companies which make a healthy living charging $20-$50/year.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And what’s stopping that from happening now?
I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that servers die because they are difficult to maintain. This is perhaps especially true for kbin/mbin based servers.
I suppose for enough money some might be willing to maintain, but I’m not sure it’s that simple.
rglullis@communick.news 5 weeks ago
what’s stopping that from happening now?
Mostly, culture. Everyone hates ads and corporate controlled networks, but almost no one wants to pay for a commercial service provider. People say that donations is an acceptable alternative, but no one pays enough for admins and developers to a living out of this.
I’m not sure it’s that simple.
I can tell you that if if that I had 10000 paying customers for my commercial offering ($29/year for Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix and Funkwhale), I’d be able to pay myself a good salary, support the developers (I pledge 20% of Communick’s profits to the devs) and hire a couple more people to help me. It is not a lot, and a lot less than Facebook extracts from each user by exploring user data.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
to make the whole ecosystem more mature and professional?
Feel free to hire the devs?
rglullis@communick.news 2 weeks ago
You can and should fund the developers as much as possible , but I am talking about paying for the work done by the instance admins and moderators.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Oh fair point.
Feel free to hire the admins then!
Wait, that might have come out wrong…rglullis@communick.news 2 weeks ago
I am one the admins. Should I hire myself?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Somebody should consider building a fork that works of bluesky’s content addressing scheme, that way communities can effectively be re-homed in full even if the server dies