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Fediverse Cheesemakin

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 10, 2023

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What happened was, last November, when Elon started showing his true face, I bailed out of Twitter. A few days before that I’d seen a post from Evan Prodromou: “Should we start a Canadian coop Mastodon service? There are going to be a lot of people who need accounts soon.” And I was so there, the moment I heard the idea.

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Sustainability · It’s not that hard to build a Mastodon instance. It’s not hard (with Elon’s help) to attract people to join it. But (pardon me for being crass) how you gonna pay that Cloud bill, and who will your mods and SREs be? The most popular answer, so far, has been “Patreon and volunteers”.

It’s pleasing that that happens, and it’s sustaining some pretty big instances as I write this. But once that Fresh Fediverse Flavor is no longer the new hotness, does it last? I mean, social media is a species of publishing, and the practice of publishing is full of chores that people have to do to keep the virtual presses spinning. It’s work, and people should be paid when they work.

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