I really think there will need to be ads/sponsors at some point, and soon. Donations won’t be enough when you need to support a few full time workers.

I really think there will need to be ads/sponsors at some point, and soon. Donations won’t be enough when you need to support a few full time workers.

I think the next move is to direct communities to a new platform, and get the mods on board with it.

Right now I think fediverse is the new platform. The infrastructure needs to be ready to scale though.

Kbin needs to get baseline hardware in place and auto-scaling cloud hardware to deal with the rush and day-to-day fluctuations. This requires money and engineers.

Kbin needs a way to generate some income to help pay for these things. The easiest to sell is ads. If ads don’t show up soon I don’t see this project succeeding. If Kbin can’t scale automatically then it’s going to fail.

Once these issues are addressed then convincing a few large subreddits to redirect their community to fediverse will make it easier to redirect smaller subreddits. It will also make it possible for mobile devs to do their thing.

I think mobile apps should decide if they want to be free and not show ads, or get a cut of ad revenue if they do show kbins ads to their users. People should be compensated for their work.

A private subreddit isn’t going to bubble up to the top. It’s bound to happen.

I think a better option is to let subreddits stay open and simply push their migration agenda to the top of the algorithm naturally. It might be telling their community to move to discord, fediverse, or something else.

They can’t scale. They will die.

Odd how the decentralized platform doesn’t scam well when you have centralized moderation.

/s

It wouldn’t be impossible to track. Decentralized databases are a thing. Honestly blockchain would be useful here. Never thought I’d say that.

Meth and other drugs designed to keep you awake longer so you can work more.

I think it would be symbiotic to have both. A free api that serves ads and a paid api that doesn’t.

Then for the free tier, let the 3pa make a cut of that ad revenue.

You could then have an app like Apollo that gets paid if ads are shown or pays for no ads. The 3pa can pass that choice off to the user.

Non-user facing things like bots and data mining would need to use the paid app tier.

I just clicked on one of the federated login options. Works great.