We need to understand, though, that the Fediverse is going to undergo similar changes and struggles. People aren’t going to want to pay to run servers, forever, and there will be lost servers and ones that suddenly have ads or subscription fees.
Granted, this creates competition and it’ll be better for the end user, but the utopia of Mastodon and KBin is going to be challenged by the crappy, but very real, realities of the world.
I wonder if there is a better way to distribute the upkeep of all the data. Like bittorrent has the swarm and crypto got random people using hardware to prop up the transaction network. Currently these single fediverse instances puts most of the burden on the hoster and becomes a single failure point for that instance.
Yeah that’s my only concern and why I stick with the major instances, for now. I know monetization for the sake of running the services is going to have to come at some point. I’m sure we’ll see a bunch of variations and approaches and I hope people are open to the ideas. I want the fediverse to grow and, for that to happen, we need to make sure it’s sustainable for the people who choose to help prop it up.
We need to understand, though, that the Fediverse is going to undergo similar changes and struggles. People aren’t going to want to pay to run servers, forever, and there will be lost servers and ones that suddenly have ads or subscription fees.
Granted, this creates competition and it’ll be better for the end user, but the utopia of Mastodon and KBin is going to be challenged by the crappy, but very real, realities of the world.
I wonder if there is a better way to distribute the upkeep of all the data. Like bittorrent has the swarm and crypto got random people using hardware to prop up the transaction network. Currently these single fediverse instances puts most of the burden on the hoster and becomes a single failure point for that instance.
Yeah that’s my only concern and why I stick with the major instances, for now. I know monetization for the sake of running the services is going to have to come at some point. I’m sure we’ll see a bunch of variations and approaches and I hope people are open to the ideas. I want the fediverse to grow and, for that to happen, we need to make sure it’s sustainable for the people who choose to help prop it up.
Some people just aren’t willing to pay anything unfortunately.
I think the only difference is that there’s at least a chance to keep interacting with the community from an instance that is not showing ads.
Indeed and there is also competition between instances, instead of being left to the whims of a sole dictator of a centralized service.
or we can get cooperative model that is already present in a couple mastodon instances.
Well, that would never happen as long as they figure out a appropriate way to make a profit. Mastodon using ‘Crowdfunding’ system to earn money