this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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There won't be.
Just go back to the Internet forums of old - many major forums back in the day were ran as small businesses with subscriptions and advertising. I hope the fediverse does allow a commercial model - we need diversity in how to fund such infrastructure. If some instance owners want to institute subscriptions or include advertising on their instances, that should be a feature that the Lemmy developers should seriously consider. Otherwise, it's hard to scale a service like this on donations alone.
Definitely. We need a way to sustain this. Many of us me included would be happy to pay for a service that respect us, and especially those volunteering admins/mods. They deserve to be paid
You can already donate to developers and many (most?) admins. Or put bounties on GitHub issues.
IIRC my instance admin accepts recurrent donations and forwards the overflow to the devs.
I'm trying to get a discussion started on how to fund the Fediverse a little bit. Would you mind tagging along on !LemmyFund?
It's all just super basics, but I'm trying to get this right and there's a lot to figure out.