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After the blackout... (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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...how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I'm definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.

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[–] happilybitchycowboy 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There wasn't much to Reddit when it first started. Users built it over the years, including myself. I'd love to see Lemmy do the same, but it'll take work and commitment. Should it happen to become as large, I do wonder if it will eventually face the same woes as Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It shouldn't, provided people don't just pile into single instances and spread themselves out.

Also Support your local instance provider.. ask them if they have a patron or something you can donate to. These servers aren't cheap to run, and the more people and on an instance, the more money it takes to keep up on the upkeep.

In the end due to the lack of ads, someone must front the costs, and with no angel investors (I mean I don't want angel investors all over my fediverse, do you?) it's gotta be us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think a sustainable server moneyization model needs to be opt-in every year or so:

donate monthly
allow a crypto miner to run on your device and convert power and spare computations to cash monthly
allow ads to convert to cash monthly.
default is private free-riding and an annual guilt trip private message

Then once a month, your account gets divided between the instances that had the most bandwidth with your account.

Is there a privacy friendly app or instance that has incorporated this? The devs hosting the server could periodically show some annual stats on server costs and monetization revenue.

Source: I see Wikipedia hosts text and links and asks for money once a year, and I see (intrusive to me) stickied posts asking for money on mastodon, and I want a happy private medium.