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I'll never fail to marvel at people who believe the only way you can provide a service is via a massive corporation. The myopic nature of people assuming that just because we are doing now means that it is superior to other ways of operating. What they always fail to notice is that the massive corpo entity usually smothers things like this for market share (i.e facebook)
I was wondering about what would happen if you started a nonprofit and ran a Lemmy/Mastodon instance and charge like 1 or 2 bucks a month. So if it gets flooded with users you have money to scale it up. And hire admins and such. You get the stability and centralization of a corporation but no profit motive
my home instance is hosted by sdf.org, a 30+ year-old non-profit org that is sustained entirely by voluntary donation (as in membership is free). You should look them up.
I had a shell account there many years ago didn't know they had a Lemmy instance thanks for reminding me about them.