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The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent (mstdn.social)

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

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Please, tell me how "paying for hardware costs is enough"...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Is it really?

Do you think it's quantifiable?

I can go and say "my work as an admin is worth $XX,XXX/month, so this is how much I'd like to get paid to do it". Now, some people will agree with it and pay for it. Some will not, and will look for some cheaper alternative.

If more admins went to on to adopt a similar approach and stipulated first how much their work is worth before even setting up an instance and if users went on to refuse the offer, what would they do?

Putting themselves through the trouble to set up an instance for themselves?
Pay a professional to do it for them?
Go to Reddit?

Can you go around and say "my work as an user of Lemmy (or Reddit, or LinkedIn) is worth $YY per post, or $ZZ,ZZZ per month, and this is how I'd like to get paid to do it?"

Will anyone take you on your proposal?

And if admins refused to accept your offer, what do you think they would do?

Find other sources of "content"?
Pay other professionals to generate content for them?
Go To Reddit?

As a data point: I may have stopped the alien.top mirroring bots, but I am still running them locally to browse Reddit content. To this day, the niche communities I used to sub there have more interesting content than anything here. So don't think that whatever we are posting here is worth anything.