How many hobbiests running miniature train sets in their garage have monetized those train sets? How many backyard gardeners sell their crops.
In most cases people who choose to develop and administrate an instance of their own are largely just hobbiests of another type. Sure it costs them some money. Many hobbies cost money, it doesn't stop people from building things or growing things for fun.
Funny story I was gonna go make a 1 star review in response to this and found out I already submitted one over a year ago!
So I guess instead I'll go and mark only 1 star reviews as helpful (maybe also a few 5 star reviews in cyrillic script, just for fun.)
Oh hey Spot how that Instance over there? Is there a daystrom institute subcommunity and did they scrape the r/daystrom subreddit?
I'm curious if that's a guess, an estimate or something you pulled from a source. Not to imply any doubt, I've just been wondering the numbers myself.
Do you think AA meetings are only for the religious too when they hold them at the local church basement?
12 step programs have meetings in churches and community centers. It's a trope, practically a cliche.
To get the full context you'd have to go back through the history of 3rd party apps on reddit which is.... a long story spanning years. Part of it is about accessibility and adequate mod tools (which 3rd party apps are built to support / official reddit pretty much doesn't)
But the point is that this was the final conflict in a long saga for a small but extremely active group of redditors including a huge number of mods. Reddit might not have lost the rest of us if they played the game it cleverly and with some tact.
I was personally pretty comfortable, apathetically doomscrolling the fromt page. But then my attention was directed towards the man behind the curtain. The writing is on the wall with the mod removals, reddit created cryptocurrency, and the sheer number of ads. It was clear I needed to remove myself from that space.
Twitter was apparently just a glitch. I'm told it's tricky to run a half billion user website with a skeleton crew.
Nah, logged out access is back, they are just running a half billion user website with a skeleton crew over there lol.
Sames, I was a mod for years of a super niche game community that died off with the sands of time. I was fully acclimated to the new reddit site and app by sometime last year, but watching reddit this past month has been like watching someone methodically and deliberately cannibalize their own limbs.
The best way to get them to pose for you is to wait for a few hours with your camera at hand and then put it away in a difficult to reach place. The cat will likely pose within seconds.
They hold the Karma Anonymous meetings at the local church on Tuesday nights
"Free market" is neither free not cheap.