Well, that's all great. But the big problem with these kinds of platforms is always that hosting all this data (especially videos) is extremely expensive. It's not necessarily impossible that donations+ads+subs can cover all the infrastructure costs, but generally there's a need for some sort of big capital backing. Open Source is not something that gets that sort of private investment.
But hey maybe. I'd absolutely love that.
The model is pretty successful anyway, some people here have mentioned Pixiv and Nebula.
IDK, I see tons of left and trans content on YT and Twitter, for example. That is because that's the type of content I like, and the type of people I follow. I suspect what you're noticing isn't so much the presence of communism and trans people, but the absence of dumb shit.
"They won't be happy until we are all gay." I thought Barbie and Ken were the quintessential straight couple? I haven't watched the film but that is so odd.
The absolute dommy mommy energy from CSM women is nearly overwhelming. I feel my humanity slip away whenever I see images such as these. I am devolving as we speak.
The issue with large scale marketing is that it can be rather expensive.
Anyone can learn to code and contribute to Lemmy's codebase, just like anyone can learn marketing. The difference is that it's not so easy to, say, buy ad-space, get deals with content creators, etc.
Lemmy's design, however, can be done by web designers, and it is done by web designers/designers, in part at least. For example, Lemmy.world's icon was made by a regular user. That's part of marketing I think (?).
Well, that's all great. But the big problem with these kinds of platforms is always that hosting all this data (especially videos) is extremely expensive. It's not necessarily impossible that donations+ads+subs can cover all the infrastructure costs, but generally there's a need for some sort of big capital backing. Open Source is not something that gets that sort of private investment.
But hey maybe. I'd absolutely love that.
The model is pretty successful anyway, some people here have mentioned Pixiv and Nebula.