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Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base'
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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The issue really comes down to the infrastructure costs. The fediverse is by design significantly less efficient with hardware than a centralized system. It isn't that it's difficult to scale, it's just that it's expensive to scale. And since the hardware is maintained by generosity of donation...
This is offset by the higher interest in volunteer labour, though.
I think the "solution" is just to accept that instances will burst in and out of existence (and favour) based on time and generosity.
As long as user profiles and contributions can transfer between instances, especially if the process is easy, then instances coming and going won’t be that much of a problem.
I do hope that current and future open source tech moves towards monetization resistance if monetization can’t be done ethically. Donation and volunteers seem to be the working formula so far