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Carefully writing that down. You can delete your comment now. Thank you
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Righttttt
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What are kbin magazines. Different than communities? Where
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Sub as a noun is fine. Sub can just mean subscription (to a community) or "at a lower level" so lower than an instance, thus community.
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Yes something like this should definitely be implemented. Mastodon has the feature of "moving your account" from one instance to another, but I haven't tested it yet. Don't know if it has anything like you mentioned like key management.
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Yeah forgive me for not understanding, but I thought the decentralisation is the distribution of different communites, not of the same communities. Or perhaps you are in fact talking about different communities, but then you have to make that clear.
But even so. There may be many instances, adding to the total cost, which would still increase, and so the number of people needing to pay. This may not scale. I'm very doubtful.
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Sure, but couldn't you still have a 30 million user community in a single instance? Or would you also like that community to be spread out over multiple instances? Probably not because that would splinter communities. But having such a big community in a single instance, is still hard to host. Expensive. And donations may not suffice.
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I'd like the idea of certain instances becoming so large that it attracts the larger populous and becomes one of the major platforms. That is if it remains to be open source and federated.
(Edit: or just a community)
Why is background crypto mining not used? If it's openly communicated and is an opt-in option, people might prefer that over donation or ads.
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I'm talking about the possibility of it growing and reaching the larger populous. They do not have adblockers. They will therefore finance the instance. Not for profit, but for sustainability. But even now, there are people here who do not mind small and non-intrusive ads if it's for a non-profit instance. Not everyone here, even now, is a world-wary anti-consumer, whatever that is.
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it doesn't need to be. I'm just saying that it may not be even possible to compete, if you were to want that.
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the same can be said about instances with millions of users uploading and downloading millions of images and videos. I'd love to follow along and see that journey would go. I mean, I hope I'm wrong but I just don't see it being sustainable if you want to compete with reddit for example.
It probably goes against the philosophy or whatever of FOSS or Lemmy itself, but why not be a little evil so that you can *actually* sustain yourself? Donations can bring us far, but small non-intrusive ads can be a bliss in the skies for the people *actually* hosting the instance. Especially if there are millions of users uploading thousands of images and videos. This is extremely expensive. Is running ads really that taboo? EDIT: some people seem not to get the point of "millions of users", which presumably includes non-techies that do not use adblockers. I mean that without ads (or mining?), no instance would be able to scale to the point where it can compete with Reddit for example. If you were to want that. And not for profit, but solely for sustainability.
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yes but no.
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Ah the sweet moment of having to retype your comment
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I feel like that's a massive hurdle for proper scaling to overcome. One of the reasons FOSS platforms can never supersede the others
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Exactly my thoughts
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There is only one original though
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Oh my gods. What if he dies before finishing the manga. Think of the possibility. An AI will have to finish it!