Folks still spending too much time worrying about how Meta *might* monetize the Fediverse and not enough time figuring out how to make the Fediverse financially sustainable. Is the "plan" to live off donations forever? Is it to *hope* that everyone self-hosts? If so, how are they supposed to gain that knowledge, and how are systemic inequities factored into this "plan"?
Or is the "plan" to tone-police everyone onto managed hosts that obfuscate capitalism behind a virtuous layer of abstraction?
@DataDrivenMD I assumed the plan was the same as email.
Let people host their own. Let people host a free experience. Let people host a monetized experience.
None of those choices necessarily have to affect others' due to the federated nature of the service.
The idea that "the fediverse" needs to be "financially stable" is unnecessary. Individual instances need to be financially stable, whatever that means to them.
