I assume he's applying donations to the server costs first, then considers extra as profit/salary. We should be considering developer time as a core part of server costs, but I think people would react poorly if server donations went to personal expenses before server expenses.

I think one of the best thing hosts could do is be transparent about costs and how much time maintenance takes and what sort of effective wage they are getting.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Or we could drop the whole idea of depending on "donations" and understand that admins are professionals who would like to make a living like everyone else?

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately we have a whole generaton of entitled babies who scream "paywall!!!" every time somebody asks for compensation for their work

[–] kat@orbi.camp 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah, don't give that much credit to a loud minority.

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