Gregory's Server
@volodymyr @thisismissem oh, the money is not the problem. People have, what, $50 or more to spend on mobile phone service per month, and use free Wi-Fi half the time anyway. (Imagine if people spent $50 per month on the fediverse, and what could be done!)
The interesting question is: why are they fine with spending it on cell service and not on an open communication network eg the fediverse? What could be done to change that?
@J12t @thisismissem well, they pay for cell service because they have no other way to access it. #wikipedia is I think a better example since nobody is forced to pay for it. Why does it live? Because it has become well known? #mastodon is getting there. By the way, maybe #wikimedia could itself support #fediverse since #jimmywales wt.social did not quite work out? Also, by the way, I think instances with subscriptions, at least optional, would not be crazy.