Interesting... the more time passes and your previous arguments fall along with the instances that you supported, the more you are resorting to tone policing.
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Do you know that the person you just responded to is one of the first subscribers of Communick?
If you get rid of open registration instances and start charging, you'll immediately lose huge amounts of users
That is not necessarily true. you can have for example just a bunch of people that like to self host and they will invite their friend. This will be just a small constellation of smaller instances and they don't have to be completely open registration.
Most people don't want to self host.
You don't need most. If 1% of the people can show initiative to self host and serve 100 people, it should be enough.
Everything, especially digital things, is backed by a small group of whales supporting everyone else.
Bad economics and bad incentives. What you are describing is not just a natural law that can be avoided, but it is part of the reason that we are in this mess.
Software has this amazing property of being virtually free to copy. But the things that we do it and the labor that is required of us still has a cost. We need to bring back some sense of human scale to digital platforms, and the only way to do it is by letting us set a limit to the size of the organizations.
The Lemmy devs themselves.
Why not, though.
because cheap VPS will not give you enough bandwidth, or they oversubscribe their datacenters and their advertised speeds are far from real, or they have terrible support and if something goes down you are going to have a hard time to bring things up while having to explain to 10-15k people why things stopped working, or because the reason they manage to get such low prices is because they are selling user data on the side...
I'm not saying that the only correct alternative is to go to the big cloud providers, but there is a reason why "cheap" is not the sole criteria to choose a service provider.
Put those under "self-hosting".
There will always be "First we need this, then we will start supporting it" excuse. If you think better migration tools are needed, support the developers so that they can make it happen.
34 minute mark. It says in the blog post from OP.
Wrong Blender, my friend...
Because there are more of them?
Storage. In the video he says that backups alone costs $500/month.
Also, given that the instance is called "infosec.exchange", you can be sure that he is not running this on some cheap VPS.
Ok, so you are not taking anything out of pocket at all? That's better than most, I suppose.
Still, during the interview you touch on the subject of how the donation model is not sustainable and it can only works at the scale that Fedi is right now. Wouldn't you consider then switching to a different model?