Well that didn’t take long. Looks like they’re going the discord route and locking uploads + basic customization behind a subscription. You know, because we don’t already have enough of those.
Bluesky is working on a premium subscription that will add features like higher-quality video uploads and some profile customization options.
How does “here” pay the bills?
The most straightforward answer is that anyone can spin up their own “here” for family and friends in about 20 minutes, and they don’t need to worry about anyone else footing the bill.
Or the larger instances take donations, which go towards server costs.
Pretty much this, I’d be willing to bet that even the most popular Lemmy instance likely has half or less of the active users and daily added content compared to where blue sky is right now.
Sure Blue Sky could Federate as far as I’m aware it is possible I think they technically have a back end for that somewhere but it wouldn’t have gained popularity like that because normally users absolutely hate the ux of multiple instances. To be honest I kind of do as well I’m here because I’m not going to use Reddit anymore. But the ux of finding content on Lemmy is atrocious. So many spread out instances tons of duplicated content between them but you kind of need to follow a lot of them for the non-duplicated content and just kind of find a way to deal with the duplicate cross-posted threads between instances… even then finding stuff can be annoying it’s just not a good experience
So you’re saying pass on the cost to the individual? You know it’s not a one-and-done kind of deal, right? Someone has to maintain the service.
How is essentially exploiting someone’s passion as free labor any better? Is it okay because it’s your family member working for free? Is his knowledge and time not worth anything to you?
It also has the cost of how fragmented the service has become. And is a large part of why Lemmy failed to take over for Reddit despite the amazing chance it was given. It’s not that people didn’t care enough, it’s that the experience on Lemmy is garbage from a ux perspective. People don’t care about self hosting or Federation they want One login one URL one place to find everything
Agree with you 100%.
That is the point. It depends what instance, and there are various answers.
Some strong “concept of a plan” energy you have there.