Rabbi Nathan Farb (rabbinathan@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:11:54 JST

Who pays for #Mastodon?

This is an older article, but one of the few that I've found discussing the economics of the platform. As it grows, the costs of #hosting will, too. Foundations and #patreon accounts and hobbyists will survive to a certain capacity.

So what is the breaking point?

Will mastodon become ad supported, with each instance serving mandatory ads to their users?

Will instances become #subscription services? How would you keep a #server from dying immediately as the first to require a subscription? How will you serve users who can't afford to pay?

Will every federated instance receive a per-user stipend from a centralized foundation (Wikipedia survives on donations alone)?

Will the platform require every user to provide some type of distributed processing and storage (is such a thing even feasible)?

https://sogrady.org/2022/11/13/twitter-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-i-have-questions/