Most Fediverse communities operate on donations, and overall our survey participants are not generating enough money to cover costs.
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replied to CaliCarol last edited by
@jawarajabbi Definitely a good idea and something we'll suggest the mods and admins in IFTAS Connect discuss. Thanks so much.
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replied to tyil last edited by
@tyil @iftas I doubt that's true, I expect more users are on big or medium servers than all the small ones combined? And if that's true now, still relatively in the early adoption phase, it can only be more true if we want communities where there is no technical or moderation expertise, both of which need to be done properly or not at all
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replied to CaliCarol last edited by
@jawarajabbi @iftas am actually working on this with @newsmast — had an idea of how to do this without needing changes to Mastodon's code. Still need to prototype & validate it though.
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replied to George Lund last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] I don't have any numbers to argue whether that's true or not either way.
However, if a few big ones are dominating right now, that's a very big concern. You're just recreating the issues the big proprietary platforms have but with extra steps. I would like to not actively plan to introduce those kinds of problems, so I would still call for less donations to megaservers, and using the few bucks instead to spin up more small servers. For 5 bucks you can easily host 10-20 people, so if you're the technical guy in your friends group, be that friend that hosts for them. -
replied to Emelia 👸🏻 last edited by
@thisismissem @iftas @newsmast
Cool! We need these platforms and media to be sustainable since we don't have nefarious billionaires cutting the checks.
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replied to CaliCarol last edited by
@jawarajabbi @iftas @newsmast indeed! It's just a matter of figuring out a prototype of this & then funding it to completion. Should be possible though, hoping it won't require changes to Mastodon (It has to be built for a specific server-software due to APIs and stuff)
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replied to tyil last edited by
@tyil @georgelund in our most recent needs assessment we received responses from a cohort of admins and moderators that collective host roughly a third of the Fediverse. Some of them gave us revenue and cost data.
Collectively, those services that responded cost $25,166 per month, but only bring in $20,366.
And that doesn't include cost of moderation labour, which is almost entirely volunteer.
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replied to Sarah Sammis last edited by
@pussreboots that's great.
