rglullis @ rglullis @communick.news

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No, thanks. I will not engage in any further discussion with you until you explicitly answer those statements.

Please start with the yes or no, the nuances can come after you plainly state your opinion about how much the work of admins is valuable to you.

I specifically said "you can just say agree or disagree", so please don't come with that "It would take too much time".

The list of statements where you have the chance to share your values is still unanswered.

Phrased another way: "I don't think you are allowed to make a living out of the work you do here, so thank you for accepting all this for free".

All the crypto stuff is opt-in.

No, federation is a lot easier than setting up an email server and 500GB of media storage should be enough for a long time for Lemmy. For the microblogging side, it will depend on how many media-heavy people you follow. If you follow hundreds of photographers, you will need to clear your remote media every once in a while.

You don't have to host your instance if that is your concern, but if you factor everything the total cost of running an instance (getting your own PC/VPS plus disks/storage for media, plus electricity if you are running at home) will be around $150/year. You can of course get together with some of your friends and split those costs.

But if all you want is to ensure that the Fediverse is healthy and that you don't need to worry about anything, there are commercial service providers who run servers only for paying customers. These are still cheap, $20-30 per year.

Or we could drop the whole idea of depending on "donations" and understand that admins are professionals who would like to make a living like everyone else?

You are the exception, and you will find out that even the most prolific participants here claiming that $5 per year is enough to cover the hardware costs, so he doesn't see any reason to give more than that.

Either their service provides people with enough value to donate to keep it running

You know what also works like that? Any other traditional business operation.

I am saying that since 2022: we only have a shot at this succeeding if we all start putting something at stake.

That community would be perfect for https://gearhead.town/.

I think the model is perfectly valid, so much so that I am also providing a similar service to serve this same niche. I just wanted to point out this in case someone comes to me and say "you are charging $14/month for GoToSocial, this is so much more than $COMPETITOR". Yes, my base price is higher but I do not put any limits on the database and even my lowest capacity plans have a very generous soft-limit 100GB media storage.

Well, sure, that's the usual tactic: hook users into your platform and then after they already invested the time to get things set up, make them pay.

I really hope these strategies don't become the norm. The amount of people who are willing to pay for hosting is still quite small, I don't want to have to take Communick into some race to the bottom to compete for these customers.

Also, they do charge for media storage. So, even if you are not paying for the instance you may find yourself paying a significant bill because you follow a bunch of media-heavy accounts.

They don't have pricing listed for GoToSocial, but judging by their Mastodon packages their entry options are very limited in capability. 2GB for the database and 10GB for media storage will fill up very quickly if you follow more than a few dozen accounts.

No, I don't think he is sleazy or have ill-intentions. I think he genuinely wants to do good things.

The problem it's just that he lacks focus and he worries more about feeling validated than dealing with the daily grind of continuously improving his product. As soon as any of his projects start getting a minimal amount of interest and people start depending on what he has promised, he finds himself some "new" project to be busy with. At the same time, he still feels possessive about his creations, so it's hard for him to just delegate away any significant part of the system.

I hope that the successful kickstarter makes him realize that shit got real and that he already got the validation that he was seeking, and that the money is enough to get him surrounded by good people who are a bit more focused on "proper" project management.

down votes use “Dislike” which is not used in the ActivityPub language

Dislike is an Activity type defined by ActivityStreams, which is the basis of the ActivityPub vocabulary.

There was a reason given, but it smells of bovine excrement: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/114041543384358354.

When probed a bit more about it, the silence was deafening.

It is is connected well enough as it is, and I also don't think that lemmy-federate is a good idea. It forces duplication of content on all instances, even if no one is actually interested.

I was referring to !television@metacritics.zone ...