@dansup

Great start on measuring the ActivityPub ecosystem. Thanks for sharing the link.

Is there any way to measure funded percentage or some quantitative measure of even non-labor cost coverage? I see +2,249 servers in the last month. I read @jeff comment this morning "* typically less than 2% of users financially support the social server they use."

How would one quantify sustainable funding? I provide $10.35 monthly funding to my "home" server. I justify this to myself as I pay ~$10/mo each to various news outlets and magazines. Just joined a kbin instance. Is it sustainable for an individual to fund just one instance? If someone purchases, hosts, maintains an instance, does that "buy" them sufficient to not be deemed "free-loaders"?

Is there any analysis out there on the economics of building/maintaining #ActivityPub based social ecosystems?

Wanting to draw analogies with microbial ecosystems and analyses around the effect of "free-loader" species on ecosystems. Any leads on social ecosystems?