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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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Your concerns are valid but the whole point of fediverse is so that anyone can host their own instances, as with the users are encouraged to sign up different instances instead of a central one so will the cost never be as astronomical as something like Youtube or Reddit and there will not be a catastrophic loss even if a major instance does go down. While I agree admins should be allowed to have donations accepted, I don’t think admins should treat this as a business at the first place.
TL;DR: For a not so huge volume instance, the cost isn’t as high as people would think, I believe the community can sustain itself.
It's hard to accept anything is 'free' these days. "If it's free, you're the product", comes to mind. It's not ad revenue clearly (yet). Are we giving info to data brokers? Someone somewhere has to be making money off this.
I don't particularly care that I'm being exploited for revenue, but I do like to know how the exploitation is happening.
It's a very sad commentary on the world we live in that we can't just have something nice as a community without someone trying to make a buck, but it's certainly what we're used to.