So I have thoughts about what if platforms that we seemly are trying to move away from such as Reddit decided to Fedirate and join the Fediverse.
Do you think it would be beneficial or practical in the long run?
How do you think people would change their thoughts of the Fediverse if platforms like Reddit did do this sort of thing?
What would you do if Reddit did join the Fediverse?
@Wooly Yeah not sure how the Fediverse keep going on in the run as it helps earning money to run the servers.
Bigger servers will run on donations, personal ones are hobby projects and will disappear if their owners die or get too old and no-one in their family or friendgroup is interested in keeping it running. Corporate ones (where only PR people of the respective corporation have accounts) will be considered an investment in PR and exist as long as the Fediverse is socially relevant. Some server might end up being financed by a well off person putting in their will that their money should be put in a trust and the interest used to keep the server running.
@curiosityLynx I agree, I feel as if the Fediverse might end up with some bigger servers that are gonna run even know the original creators have passed on due to money and stuff. Smaller servers like personal ones sure most of them might go offline unless families and friends pay for it.
Even with this, it's good to be able to control your data as well as your next of kin can decide on what they wish to do, as they might just want to preserve your accounts and make them not federalized or keep it federalized and use it for there own posts as well. It's something that would be interesting to see.
I think it'll be fine with donations, I remember seeing a post from lemmy.ml(?) Admins where they said it cost $30 to run the servers and they'd already received $1500 in donations.
@Wooly That's good to know, I think the server itself would cost a bit to set up but in the end, text-based media at minimum doesn't take up much space. Power is probably gonna be one of your biggest costs or if you need to buy and install more storage into the server.