I mean there’s Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I’m sure there are plenty more (and I haven’t even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a couple months?
Lets take the example of Reddit. Reddit could have kept its costs to the minimum and could have run the site with the ad revenue that came in. In fact they could have talked transparently about their opex and asked for a simple donation drive every now and then like Wikipedia. If need be, they could have removed silly GIF replies and other stuff and focused on text alone. However this would not let them become the next Facebook. That’s what they wanted to be. At some point in their story was a choice to be forums 2.0 or get into a race to become a cash grab. Sadly they went for the latter.
Let’s remember this about Kbin and the Fediverse.
I would donate to help counterbalance the wave of migration that brought me here.
You can donate to Ernest to help defray costs for kbin. The link is in the about section. Wish it was better known. I donated yesterday.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
I’m curious to see how each server owner will defray the cost of running an instance, especially the ones that start gaining popularity/users.
There’s a buymeacoffe.com/kbin donation page, where you can donate. I think Ernest should set up a patreon. I’d totes set up a monthly donation
This reminds me of when Reddit used to show their monthly server costs and ask that people get gold to help offset it?