I don’t think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on “Lemmy” or “kbin” is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer.
We should be referring to it as…
- I saw it on the fediverse.
- Hey fediverse users …
- A thread on the fediverse…
New terms may emerge but referring to the platform seems weird, almost ignorant.
edit: A better example is email. You wouldn’t assume everyone is on Hotmail because that is the email provider you use. You say I’m sendingan eamail, not I’m sending a Hotmail.
I don’t think funding is going to be too much of an issue long term, but it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. It really depends on how many people are willing to continuously donate to keep the lights on. When one server gets a lot of traffic, I’m not really sure what that will translate to in terms of costs. I wonder if it wouldn’t be realistic to imagine that some day a few server admins could buy and run their own server farms if enough excess money is donated, greatly reducing the costs involved.
A few (if not most) Lemmy server admins already share the costs of their operations on donation sites. I know my admin at lemmy.ca does that at least.