As users, we should all normalize donating, contributing or subscribing to our instances, no matter if it’s Lemmy, kbin, Mastodon or anything else.
Then if people start worrying that instances are gaining too much and too much donations … they should pass on those excess funds to the software developers who maintain and update all the software that runs this entire system.
No matter how it’s done, we should all normalize supporting our instances and the software developers because if we don’t, all this new social media network will rise and fall like every other social network before it … No matter how open and decentralized we like to believe that it is.
We can decentralize software and social media systems … but we’re never going to separate the fact that someone, somewhere has to pay some amount of money somewhere to keep this system running. If it isn’t us, eventually it will be paid and owned by someone we don’t like or don’t want to own what we created.
I found Connect has a bit of an unintuitive way of navigating to communities and users too (you can’t just tap on the name in a post). All these apps are fairly new though so I’m sure things will continue to improve.
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