We will need small and independent commercial providers for the Fediverse.

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    Is that an apples-to-apples comparison though? To me, that sounds like “Show me a soup kitchen that’s able to pay market rate for chefs”.

    Also, by that logic, Reddit is a failure. They don’t pay mods either.

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      Ok. Fair enough, moderators usually are also part of the community, so they akso have the incentive to keep it going well even if unpaid.

      Yet, the point stands. Remove “moderators” from the previous comment. Show me any donation-based instance on Mastodon that is able to pay (market-rate) for the labor of admins and developers.