Yeah, this is no different from how every other social media platform operates. Unfortunately it’s just the way these websites make money to stay “free for consumers”.
The only (distant) solution I can see will be the fediverse, paid for by UBI and decreasing server costs (i.e. green energy and tech breakthroughs)
I honestly don’t know, if a decentralized approach like Lemmy or Mastodon scales well enough. De facto, each instance is a copy of the entire network, so it will use tons of resources. Financing this will be hard.
Yeah, this is no different from how every other social media platform operates. Unfortunately it’s just the way these websites make money to stay “free for consumers”.
The only (distant) solution I can see will be the fediverse, paid for by UBI and decreasing server costs (i.e. green energy and tech breakthroughs)
I honestly don’t know, if a decentralized approach like Lemmy or Mastodon scales well enough. De facto, each instance is a copy of the entire network, so it will use tons of resources. Financing this will be hard.