volunteer donations are more than enough to pay for a fedi instance
Depends on how many volunteers you have who are actually willing to donate
Funding, even in a not-for-profit sense, will always be an issue. Wikipedia struggles, but kinda makes it work. We're going to need something creative for the fediverse...
I donate to them fairly regularly, Wikipedia is fucking great!
Sadly, this is the only logical conclusion of things that are run for profit. Here's hoping the federated model proves more resistant in the long run.
Doctorow has it right. Enshittification.
In the medium run federated instances will have to be financed somehow as well. We'll see how that goes.
@amki @Luxsidus
volunteer donations are more than enough to pay for a fedi instance
Depends on how many volunteers you have who are actually willing to donate
Funding, even in a not-for-profit sense, will always be an issue. Wikipedia struggles, but kinda makes it work. We're going to need something creative for the fediverse...
I donate to them fairly regularly, Wikipedia is fucking great!