Cohost shutting down (https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down) is sad but not surprising. Unfortunately.
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Cohost shutting down (https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down) is sad but not surprising. Unfortunately.
People saying "I wish media was not like today! I'd gladly pay $N for a nice no-nonsense / no-ads social platform". And then they don't.
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Aras Pranckevičiusreplied to Aras Pranckevičius last edited by
And no mastodon/"fediverse" is not a sustainable and scalable answer. You still need someone to run the servers (costs $$$) and do moderation (costs human work and sometimes human misery).
Like, this instance running at all is a combination of Someone paying a $700 bill each.and.every.month, and about 5 moderators looking at reports and user registrations each.and.every.day. *So far* this has been working. Will it keep on working? Who knows! Forever? Probably not
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Morten Hilker-Skaaningreplied to Aras Pranckevičius last edited by
@aras hmm, I'm guessing more than 700 people can pay $1 per month? Some can pay more if a patreon, or equivalent, exists... Like how tax supporting a library is actually very cheap
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abadideareplied to Morten Hilker-Skaaning last edited by
@morten_skaaning @aras asking people to contribute $1 a month on the logic everyone can afford it is the least effective way to fundraise for two reasons:
a) the main difficulty is getting people to commit at all and fill out the form, not that they can afford $1 but not $5
b) the transaction fees are roughly 30 cents whether you’re donating $1, $5 or $10. This usually gets subtracted from the amount the server receives, not added to the amount the donors pay.
So always ask for a minimum commitment of $5. You need a fraction of the supporters, and for most of those who do commit, the difference between the $1 and $5 is financially incidental.
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@0xabad1dea @morten_skaaning @aras if you wanted to do $1/mo as the cost it's far better to set it up as $12/year to amortise things