This is not a matter for instance admins but for proper community moderation.

Not at all. Evan is advocating for the development of ActivityPub as the basis for the social graph, not any specific application: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/113143389340566731

But why shouldn’t we have a mechanism that can make fediverse sustainable, not reply on the kindness of humanity?

You charge from your users. The costs of any interactions from other instances will be because of your users.

Open source doesn’t means enjoy everything for free.

Please show me the receipts of every payment you've made for every time you've used some free software.

What really pisses me off is that you probably never even tried to see for yourself what type of costs and work entails running an instance, yet you are here claiming to have a solution to all of the fediverse. The more you try to argue your position the more clueless you sound.

How would it work? The other instances still need to know what actor is behind the activity.

Also, why? This is social media, not official elections. "Votes" here are completely meaningless.

What is your base image? It has no python installed.

Nothing in this discussion is against Lemmy developers, and no one is trying to silence their voices. It's just about creating/finding alternatives for those that are not interested in interacting with that instance.

Also, me calling you out is not "blackmailing", just me ensuring that downvotes like yours don't become a pile-on.

There is no commission from the funding part, it makes money by providing a service. To be a member of the Collective you need a paid plan on Communick. The cheapest one is $29/year, which gives an account on Mastodon/Lemmy/Matrix/Funkwhale.

Compared with Patreon which takes a 8% cut, any creator that is receiving more than $30 per month will be better off by using this platform instead.

Doesn't "the only thing that the Fediverse has over the alternatives is the ethical superiority" answer that?

I am here because I want it to succeed, not because it has.

bird.makeup is not a bridge in the proper sense, it only brings content from Twitter to the Fediverse, not the other way around.

So every user that decides to get notified will add a comment to the thread?

If 100 people trigger it, 100 comments will be the exact same response?

Also, if people end up "deleting the comment to keep the thread clean", will they get purged as well?

I'm yet to understand why people downvote comments like yours. Your answer was on-topic, provided a reasoning, was well-written... even if I haven't fully recovered from the trauma of having two wordpress sites hacked, I still think your comment has merit.

I still think we should focus on the professionalization of fediverse hosting. Unless your instance is just a hobby for you and a handful of people, being an admin or moderator of an instance can be a full-time job. People talk about donation-based instances as a model of sustainability, but there is no instance that is actually in the black if you account for the time of admins or moderators.