@polotek @jdp23 @oliphant “if there are "a lot" of them, then why isn't this a solved problems?” Dreamwidth has existed for years on a largely volunteer basis. Archive of Our Own, for all its problems (there are many), hosts over 13 million works and 7 million users and operates on an entirely volunteer basis. Internet forums, chatrooms, Discords, et cetera have for the large large bulk of their history been run entirely on volunteer labour.
Yet massive corporations have spent billions of dollars, and literally sold all of their user data many times over, trying to make social media profitable, and not one of them have succeeded. Open source has been trying, and failing, to pay people adequately for their work for decades. Nobody has any answers. The burden of proof is extremely on you if you still think this can be done.