Now that I've started playing around with my own lemmy instance I guess it's fitting for possibly my last beehaw post to reflect my first.

I see discord’s business model is still burning cash trying to be the next slack steam zoom reddit patreon

AP does push the data load onto volunteers (the operators of servers) but those volunteers gain some autonomy in doing so. The important part of that quoted segment is that bluesky has distributed the costs but not the authority, in other words taxation without representation.

Scan QR for price is the same as "call for quote".. if you feel the need to conceal your prices then they are obviously not good, I won't waste my time confirming the obvious and simply go elsewhere.