rimlogger

Eh, I like free software the same way I like free beer - I don’t ever have to pay for it, and no one can compel me to. The beauty of community projects and free software. I enjoy being a freeloader, thanks very much. I will contribute by making this an active project with my posts.

Individual instances can probably host ads or promoted posts. Not sure how that would work though.

Seems like they have a decent clip of donations so far. But if they need to sell memberships or put up some innocuous banner ads to keep the service free, I’m okay with that too.

They have every right to protect themselves against spam. But that said, ever since they defederated, their activity and user numbers are down.