There is nothing in any Fediverse platform's software code that forces it to be for-profit.
Fediverse servers are totally independent and can easily be set up to serve a community or non-profit organisation.
For example, a co-operative could set up its own server and run it just like anything else the co-op does. Votes could be taken on what rules to have, who should be moderating, which other servers to federate with etc.
The technical and financial barriers to ownership of a Fediverse server are surprisingly low, especially if you use a managed hosting service where the hosting company handles the technical stuff.
The price of a managed hosting server starts from about 6 euros per month. The price per month goes up the more users are on the server, but the price per user goes down steeply as a server grows. At the largest server size, the cost per user is only a few cents per user per month.
@feditips WONDERFUL POST + cool would be to see prices as a graph so people know what they get into if users add up (PEERTUBE instances ask I think desperate for donations obviously didn't always get enough and just have to be shut down unless benevolent / rich enough). Data does add up (but for text based less so)
To get a ball park figure down the line a graph or run down of short and long-term cost would be 5 STAR!
If #admins want to show their *general* projections / past costs THAT WOULD BE COOL.
