Fediverse

28262 readers

677 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Quick-Start Guide to Fediverse Governance Decisions (fediverse-governance.github.io)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Much more at https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm happy it's working for you! Communick also seems to be a bit of a different concept than paying a monthly fee for a user on a Mastodon instance.

At least personally, I'm willing to give a monthly contribution to my Mastodon instance to keep it up and running, but if it started charging its users (even if it was a smaller sum than what I currently contribute) I would cut the donations and flee elsewhere. I guess I'm neither a rational consumer nor a "good" supporter, but that's just who I am I guess.

Of course it's great if people can have healthy transactional relationships. And we need to normalize paying for products like software and social media, even if it's available for free. But having the user-generated internet hidden behind a paywall will not, for me, ever be an acceptable solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Moderation wise, it works. Business-wise, not so much.

paying a monthly fee for a user on a Mastodon instance.

That is exactly how it works. One membership = one account for Mastodon/Lemmy/Matrix/Funkwhale

having the user-generated internet hidden behind a paywall will not, for me, ever be an acceptable solution.

But it's not paywalled! The websites are visible for anyone. Anyone can follow Communick users. The only thing that is different is that people that sign up for Communick are paying from the get-go for the service they are being provided, like any other utility.