Say a competent & committed person launched a premium instance. #Calckey, let’s say, but it could be any #Fediverse flavor.
By premium I mean that it would require all accounts to pay $15/month.
Further assume that 100 people would sign up for that. (For the record; I would totally sign up for that.)
That’s $1500/month. Not a living wage, but possibly enough to make it worth their while to do all the backend shit people like me cannot do, which likely is not anywhere near a full-time job.
I know the devil is in the details, but on broad strokes… why wouldn’t this work?
I can think of one potential benefit of a paying-members-only instance: trolls cannot create a bunch of accounts on your instance, because each account would need to pay your fee. Problem is, you then need to kick and block trolls after they paid for a service that you are no longer providing. Your terms of service need to be abundantly clear and airtight to protect from litigation.
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