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Is it possible to commercialize lemmy?

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10 points

Capitalism uh… finds a way.

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How is Lemmy paying for the servers they need to serve content? I have no idea, but someone is footing the bill.

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I think some of the larger instances accept user donations. And smaller instances are just paid for by the owner.

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I think eventually what we will see is companies hosting their own official instances where they have absolute admin/moderation privileges (which is bad) but they will wind up paying to host their own propaganda/tech support which is good. Probably governments too, which sounds like it sucks but they have a twitter and facebook pages already so its really no different.

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Interesting. I’d welcome something like cable where companies would host content to push their brands.

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2 points

does it matter? can’t people do anything for the love of the game anymore?

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Sure they can, but how long will their “just for the fun of it” mentality last when AWS bills are thousands of dollars and Taco Bell offers them $6 million for control of it?

Would they even tell us or would we just start seeing a bunch of Tacos Locos ads on hot?

I’m betting a non-disclosure would the first thing they’d have to sign.

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Meta seems to be trying to commercialize ActivityPub, so maybe???

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