…how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I’m definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.

  • AdminWorker
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    1 year ago

    I think a sustainable server moneyization model needs to be opt-in every year or so:

    • donate monthly
    • allow a crypto miner to run on your device and convert power and spare computations to cash monthly
    • allow ads to convert to cash monthly.
    • default is private free-riding and an annual guilt trip private message
    • Then once a month, your account gets divided between the instances that had the most bandwidth with your account.

    Is there a privacy friendly app or instance that has incorporated this? The devs hosting the server could periodically show some annual stats on server costs and monetization revenue.

    Source: I see Wikipedia hosts text and links and asks for money once a year, and I see (intrusive to me) stickied posts asking for money on mastodon, and I want a happy private medium.