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porkypenguin t1_j12v4ev wrote

Reply to comment by volkmasterblood in Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by geoxol

no ads is tough unless you’re cool with a subscription model. ultimately if this gets adopted at scale, someone’s gotta pay for all those servers

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1byteofpi t1_j135cua wrote

isn't the idea behind a decentralised, federated social media that whoever hosts that instance pays for the server?

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medraxus t1_j13byee wrote

Yea, someone is still paying at the end of the day

And once it gets big enough they’ll have to rely on donations

And once they get even bigger they will have the advertisers knocking on their door with bags of cash

And once they get even bigger the feds and copyright holders will be knocking on their door for all the unmoderated content that’s on the platform

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givemeworldnews t1_j134elk wrote

To pay for that, maybe they could sell spaces on the main page that people can pay to post? Maybe have it run on a monthly model etc?

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Old_Smrgol t1_j14cdyo wrote

>spaces on the main page that people can pay to post?

You mean ads?

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