@evan I will admit that I don't really know how service providers, or what-have-you can do fiscally well in the fediverse, aside from advertising. What I do know, is, I don't want Mastodon, or the greater fediverse, to just turn into another version of regular social media that feeds you ads. I don't know the alternative answer to generating revenue, aside from crowdfunding. But I feel like if the internet is rebuilding through federated connection, then we should think of a way to build new, less intrusive streams of money