rglullis

Moderation wise, it works. Business-wise, not so much.

paying a monthly fee for a user on a Mastodon instance.

That is exactly how it works. One membership = one account for Mastodon/Lemmy/Matrix/Funkwhale

having the user-generated internet hidden behind a paywall will not, for me, ever be an acceptable solution.

But it's not paywalled! The websites are visible for anyone. Anyone can follow Communick users. The only thing that is different is that people that sign up for Communick are paying from the get-go for the service they are being provided, like any other utility.

No moderator went on to call out users who were down voting for disagreement, because this data is not public on Reddit.

The handful of paid customers I have on Communick are better than any "supporter" I had on my open source projects. They understand the value of their time, expectations are adjusted with proper communication and none of them act entitled just because they pay.

I strongly believe that we need to change the general mentality and that charging a little bit from everyone is better than relying on few generous people to make up for freeloaders

But no one said about turning every instance into a paid one.

If you want to avoid LW, there is already !television@metacritics.zone, and I will gladly add any of you as moderators.

Think of the paradox of choice: the more spread around the discussions are, the harder it becomes for other people to start participating.

Please consider just contributing to any of the existing communities.

What is the problem with paid accounts?

Of course it splits the user base. If we are going to have one new community created every week, we might as well just use Mastodon and post things based on hashtags.

All the more reason to try to keep it on-topic. If things are still just starting, it's quite easy to derail it by trying to push content that is not necessarily the main focus of the community.

Edit: I updated the rules to be more specific about it.

The instance is federated,.but the communities were quiet or only used for mirroring content from Reddit.

If you know more mods or people who want to migrate, I'd love to help.

Thanks for the submission, but it feels a bit off-topic for this community, no?

Communities on selfhosted.forum are meant for community support and exchange of information, and less about general news.

If I knew you here, I'd have invited you to join !streetwear@style.land. I feel like fashion is still one of the biggest segments on Reddit that could have migrated.