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1 year agoLooks like something along those lines is already suggested here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/65
It’s never a bad idea to add a thumbs up to show that people want the feature
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Looks like something along those lines is already suggested here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/65
It’s never a bad idea to add a thumbs up to show that people want the feature
What the hell lmao, literally 2 posts down on my feed is the Verge article from today which states:
While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open
???
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout
0·1 year agoI’m of the same mind - I’ll watch with great interest and welcome interaction with users on Meta-run instances, but I don’t think it’ll be much of a threat to the fediverse. The increased activity from Meta will in some ways be a rising tide that adds to the appeal of existing instances, and their development on top of ActivityPub will potentially be useful as case-studies of what kinds of UX can feasibly be built on top of ActivityPub, and may serve as lessons to existing fediverse projects that we can learn from as we find ways to provide good UX on top of a complex federated system - either as good examples of ways to present federated data structures in ways that are easy to understand, or as examples of what not to do if they do something that doesn’t work well.
From the related post linked by op, it’s described as just a portion of the managed instance hosting fee going back to the project devs. So if you pay them to host a lemmy instance, a small cut goes to Lemmy devs. Doesn’t seem sketchy at all. Seems to have nothing to do with monetizing the instance itself, which could be funded by voluntary donations as normal or you could probably do membership fees as some instances do. It seems this is just about giving funding to the software devs. Hopefully this encourages other managed hosting providers to also give a cut of their revenue to the software they are using for their business.