• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Genuine question: given that running a platform like that costs money, and that money must come from somewhere, what would you actually do if you were in charge of running it? You either take money from advertisers, or you charge users directly, and I’d hazard to guess that if you’d nuke your account upon seeing ads, you probably wouldn’t pay actual money to use it.

      So what do you do?

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        1 year ago

        Not the person you were speaking to, but get nationalised or run on donations as a non-profit.

        But I do pay more than my share for most fediverse instances that I use (which reminds me, I use this one enough - should probably make my donation regular)