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Pillowfort, a (non-federated) Tumblr-alternative, is closing down (www.pillowfort.social)
submitted 1 day ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Maybe some of its users will join the Fediverse? But where should they go, I don't think there's a federated Tumblr clone.

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[–] 9 points 1 day ago* (7 children)

Lack of funds, essentially. For all we hate corporatised Internet services, we really suck at funding alternatives.

This is an ongoing problem, we need to figure out a way to make these services sustainable. The donation model obviously isn't cutting it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Paid supporter membership? Something like, you get a snazzy badge next to your username if you send them 2 EUR a month?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Don't have any sources, but I feel like I've seen that model before and it doesn't seem to have worked so far for most people.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (2 children)

    I have a monthly donation going to the nonprofit running Lemmy.world as it was my server for the longest time, and it seems to work for them?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    The donation model works for a very few groups, but for the vast majority of OSS and freehosted projects, donations are nowhere close to covering costs.

    Even lemmy.world is viable because they only count server costs, and are volunteer run. If they had to cover staffing costs, it would be untenable.

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