It also costs money to host instances. And I wonder how will we be able to monetize them. Will we have ad-supported and premium instances? Is that possible with Lemmy?
As much as people don’t like websites making their behavioural profiles and selling that data or advertising with it, most people are also not willing to pay for access to social media. There are many who would be willing, but will there be “critical-mass” many?
So it will be very interesting to see how the instances can be made self-sustainable. Right now (but correct me if I’m wrong), I think it doesn’t make financial sense to run one. People can do this for a while to support “the movement”, but I wonder what happens when “the movement” is over.
As much as people don’t like websites making their behavioural profiles and selling that data or advertising with it, most people are also not willing to pay for access to social media. There are many who would be willing, but will there be “critical-mass” many?
So it will be very interesting to see how the instances can be made self-sustainable. Right now (but correct me if I’m wrong), I think it doesn’t make financial sense to run one. People can do this for a while to support “the movement”, but I wonder what happens when “the movement” is over.