This expectation that users have that they can just upload content to servers for free is the most fiat thing in social media.
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What’s the most sustainable model?
Zap pay onetime per upload? Pay a fee per month stored? Micropayment upon download? Everyone hosting their own?
In reality it is about dissemination. If you want your stuff out there, you better pay for it or it will disappear, be slow, censored or with ads.
I think they think they are paying with the content much as the server admins think they are the new owners that content.
I don't really want to spam anyone, thanks.
it's free on my own server though
It's okay to pay for services that you actively use.
This expectation that users have that they can just upload content to servers for free is the most fiat thing in social media.
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Users are so used to being the product.
It has a cost association though.
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As long as your server has a CDN attached to it...
Personal servers tend to be extremely slow. All your followers need to wait 1-3 seconds to see your images while everything else is quite instant. You don't notice, but all your followers do.
I have loads of stuffs on my home server already, I'll just push my own shitposting content there too, it's just so satisfying, my followers would understand
This is a behavior model that users have been accustomed to over the years of the Legacy Internet. It is not easy to break it, but it is possible. Users need to be shown the benefits and effectiveness of new types of products
agree but tech-wise, we are quite far away from that ideal
Would there be any obvious issues to making something like every phone a relay that hosts your follows / friends notes?
It’s actually not that bad. Use it to train your AI models and then generate revenue from that
Not in the Fediverse, they don’t sell data. Mastodon, Pixelfed and Loops for example cover costs and growth with user donations, sponsorships, and grants, as well as crowdfunding.