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I'm fairly new and don't 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?

Especially with the influx of new users. Hardware upgrades are needed.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Municipal👏 Social👏 Media👏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ask yourself these questions..

How long until http protocol is monetized?

How long until POP, IMAP and SMTP (collectively referred to as 'email') is monetized?

How long before torrents are monetized?

The answer is, quite nearly from the start you could .. but anyone can still do everything you could with those protocols by themselves, for free, without any strings. Still people monetized all those things early.

Because those are all just protocol, or a digitized agreement on rules of communicating fixed sets of information. Sets like an email, or a website, or a collection of files. No one owns any of these rules they just exist and any two computers can agree on them and use that to exchange information.

Fediverse is a protocol. Lemmy, kbin, mastodon, and the others are all just programs talking the same protocols. No one allowed any of them to do so, they just agreed to. All the entities that make up the fediverse agreed to the same thing, so all of them can talk to each other, in theory. In practice each one can choose which others it wants to talk to. Just like you can build an email client that just will not send emails to Gmail. It's not because it can't but because it doesn't want to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't kill a protocol. You make it irrelevant, like Google did to XMPP. Read here: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

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