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Tim W

@beholder20 @stux I mean, there doesn't HAVE to be one for the overall #fediverse or for #mastodon or for an individual instance... But running an instance, especially a big one, sure isn't free.

6 Nov 2022 at 1:30 | Open on cantos.social
Derek Caelin 🌱

@tw @beholder20 @stux many servers run on community donations - sometimes monthly. A lot of volunteer labor.

6 Nov 2022 at 4:07 | Open on sunbeam.city
Derek Caelin 🌱

@tw @beholder20 @stux The core devs get about $12k per month from patreon: social.wake.st/@liaizon/109293

I chip in q dollar a month to my own server.

6 Nov 2022 at 4:10 | Open on sunbeam.city
Paul Briley

@derek @tw @beholder20 @stux
Depends on what's on servers. Video etc eats up capacity. Text is nothing. AWS or Google Cloud provide oodles of space for pennies when text. It's other media that'll cost. Perhaps subscription model.

6 Nov 2022 at 7:51 | Open on mastodon.online
stux⚡

@beholder20 @tw Donations from the community ❤️ see our about page for example:
mstdn.social/about

6 Nov 2022 at 1:41 | Open on mstdn.social
Tim W

@stux @beholder20 sure. I started DynDNS as a community-supported donation-based service. It is REALLY hard to make that scale and still be sustainable.

6 Nov 2022 at 1:44 | Open on cantos.social
Tim W

@stux @beholder20 I don't mean to be s**ting on anyone's parade. It clearly is working in many instances. I'm more trying to have thoughts / start conversations on expanding the ways we do it, because I think some additional options are going to be necessary for really explosive growth.

6 Nov 2022 at 1:51 | Open on cantos.social
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@tw @stux @beholder20

the/an additional option would be #platformcoop model. The instance I'm on, #socialcoop, is funded and managed by its members. This model also immediately reframes any problems or suggested improvements from "THEY should do something about this" to "How do WE budget for and address this".

6 Nov 2022 at 14:17 | Open on social.coop
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