@atomicpoet then again, if someone were to offer me $50 million to stop being a satirical online “troll”, I would seriously consider it.

@atomicpoet and even if he *did* buy all existing instances, setting new ones up is trivial and the migration between instances is possible.

Also, let's put the $585m in perspective: that's ~75 times less than he paid for :birdsite:. It's about a third of :birdsite: 's annual interest payments.

@atomicpoet >Imagine if people asked the silly “How do you make money?” question about other hobbies.

I wish I could only imagine. I get asked the same question whenever I start a new hobby or whenever I do something for fun

The difference between Substack and my Fediverse servers is that Substack has a fiduciary duty to shareholders to generate profit.

I do not.

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If I could make money by eating cheese I would so do that

@atomicpoet I've honestly actually had relatives do this 😆

@atomicpoet My partner and I own cats. Plus we run a cat boarding facility which is very profitable.

@atomicpoet this!!!

@atomicpoet You make money off your cat by putting it into cat modelling. It’s HUGE in Romania.

@atomicpoet In fact, I PAY money for it.

@atomicpoet maybe it’s a sign of our time? Influencers make sure that everything can be and should be monetized. I hate it.

@atomicpoet This ✅ I blogged about this during the pandemic. Always nice to see someone share what I thought was a fringe opinion

https://imarc.co.uk/2021/03/12/monetising-hobbies/

@atomicpoet Everything has to be about money, don'tcha know! "You took a shit-how do you make money from it?"
Maybe we'd be better off if money wasn't the main reason for living? Just a guess?

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Brilliant toot!! Spot on.

@atomicpoet i am entitled to making money playing backgammon on onlyfans

@atomicpoet I get this. I create art for myself and have no intention of ever making money from my work.