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Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it's not good
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We need to understand, though, that the Fediverse is going to undergo similar changes and struggles. People aren’t going to want to pay to run servers, forever, and there will be lost servers and ones that suddenly have ads or subscription fees.
Granted, this creates competition and it’ll be better for the end user, but the utopia of Mastodon and KBin is going to be challenged by the crappy, but very real, realities of the world.
Well, that would never happen as long as they figure out a appropriate way to make a profit. Mastodon using 'Crowdfunding' system to earn money