Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down.

submitted by rglullis

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Avatar rglullis [OP]

Not to single you out, but this attitude is unbelievably frustrating. Everyone here loves to waste hours of their day signaling their virtue and complaining about all the evils done by the corporations, but so few are actually willing to put any skin in the game. they complain about entshittication from Spotify and Netflix, but religiously continue paying their subscriptions while refusing to support smaller, independent businesses.

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Avatar Bezier

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Avatar rglullis [OP]

Nice, I just hope that you are contributing with more than $1-2 per year. ;)

Also, if you understand the importance of support it the instances, why don't you wish that everyone did the same?

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Avatar Bezier

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Avatar Blaze (he/him)

But a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

Indeed. We are already struggling to get users and content, adding a paywall would probably kill the platform

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Avatar rglullis [OP]

a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

The idea is to get rid of "instances with open registrations". It doesn't mean that paywalled instances are the only way to achieve that.

  • We can have more people running their own small servers to share with their friends
  • We can have companies providing ActivityPub accounts to customers of their services (e.g, sign-up to the NYT and get access to any of the servers managed by Mastodon GmbH)
  • We can have companies operating their own AP servers for their employees
  • We can have phone/internet companies giving access to their AP servers as long as they have a contract or a positive balance on the top-up
  • We can have "pay it forward" instances: admins put up donations, but they explicitly declare how much they want per active user account. The instance only accepts new registrations when it has secured the resources.
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Avatar Venia Silente

I mean, you are not entitled to people being soldiers in your war against Big Tech. Like, I'd be totally for it, but some other time, nowadays I'm resting and being creative. Speaking of, not *everyone here* laps the crotch of Spotify et al. I'm a proud (but modest) pirate.

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Avatar rglullis [OP]

I wasn't the one starting the protests against Reddit, and I am not the screaming at my computer whenever Elon Musk says something completely stupid.

I just thought that after all these years, more people have understood what "when you don't pay for the product, you are the product" really meant.

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