I'm happy with Communick. They offer Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix, and Funkwhale for one subscription. Its worth paying for, because the Fediverse isn't free.
FUCKING PAID?! sorry but isn’t the fediverse supposed to be free?! it’s decentralized so anyone can just host their own instance for free. youre a bot. i know Steve, dont lie to me, tell me, are you a person that works at communick?
It's not free. Servers and bandwidth cost money.
If you're not paying, someone is being generous and paying for you.
No I don't work there. But I have been paying for 2 years. And it's the only way for the Fediverse to scale. Donations won't get us to 100M users and beyond.
With respect to Communick, I doubt you'd get close to 100m subscribers either.
Not even 100 subscribers.
But I was referring to the Fediverse in general. It won't ever scale to a real global default social network, on the donations and the kindness of strangers.
If we don't pay for it, then it'll be paid for by adds.
Then we're back to what we're trying to get away from.
Communick or whatever, just pay. Even if it's a donation.
Sure, but if you make it mandatory to pay for anyone to use - it doesn't grow. And if you're right about the Fediverse, donations aren't enough and it also dies.
People make lots of online buisness that grow just fine.
It's just when people get used to a kind of thing being free, they feel like its impossible or stupid to pay for it. Even when those same people complain about how enshittification ruins everything, they refuse to directly pay instead.
People make lots of online buisness that grow just fine.
I didn't say it couldn't grow, just that model becoming huge is very unlikely.
Sure, but if you make it mandatory to pay for anyone to use - it doesn't grow.
If you're not paying for domain and hosting someone else is. If you are so sure that's free, why don't you self-host your own instance?
I don't know anything at all about communick, just saying. Supporting a fediverse provider run by individuals who otherwise volunteer their time monetarily is a virtue not a sin, and plenty of open projects do this.
There's honestly a lot out there...
... and probably more that I'm not able to think of.
* I recommend all the ones with asterisks. I haven't tried most of the other ones yet.Woot woot mbin
I only use lemmy/mbin/piefed thing for now. I would call it a reddit replacement but its really to me a newsgroup replacment. I like being a member of the federation so far over the reddit star empire.
We need more conversational content that isn't related to news, gaming, or tech. As far as covering those topics go, we have it down.
there are other things???
You can bite people and play doom on wafrn.
Idk why, but I always read wafrn as warfarin, which is a blood thinning medication I think?
Same
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