I think eventually what we will see is companies hosting their own official instances where they have absolute admin/moderation privileges (which is bad) but they will wind up paying to host their own propaganda/tech support which is good. Probably governments too, which sounds like it sucks but they have a twitter and facebook pages already so its really no different.
Is it possible to commercialize lemmy?
Capitalism uh… finds a way.
How is Lemmy paying for the servers they need to serve content? I have no idea, but someone is footing the bill.
I think eventually what we will see is companies hosting their own official instances where they have absolute admin/moderation privileges (which is bad) but they will wind up paying to host their own propaganda/tech support which is good. Probably governments too, which sounds like it sucks but they have a twitter and facebook pages already so its really no different.
I think some of the larger instances accept user donations. And smaller instances are just paid for by the owner.
does it matter? can’t people do anything for the love of the game anymore?
Meta seems to be trying to commercialize ActivityPub, so maybe???