• rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
      53·
      4 months ago

      Nice, I just hope that you are contributing with more than $1-2 per year. ;)

      Also, if you understand the importance of support it the instances, why don’t you wish that everyone did the same?

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
          8·
          4 months ago

          But a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

          Indeed. We are already struggling to get users and content, adding a paywall would probably kill the platform

        • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
          51·
          4 months ago

          a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

          The idea is to get rid of “instances with open registrations”. It doesn’t mean that paywalled instances are the only way to achieve that.

          • We can have more people running their own small servers to share with their friends
          • We can have companies providing ActivityPub accounts to customers of their services (e.g, sign-up to the NYT and get access to any of the servers managed by Mastodon GmbH)
          • We can have companies operating their own AP servers for their employees
          • We can have phone/internet companies giving access to their AP servers as long as they have a contract or a positive balance on the top-up
          • We can have “pay it forward” instances: admins put up donations, but they explicitly declare how much they want per active user account. The instance only accepts new registrations when it has secured the resources.