Servers are expensive, either someone pays, or the instance closes.
As of now very few people are on the fediverse, so it's cheap.
But if we expect hundreds of millions of people to use it... expenses will skyrocket.
“It’s wild how little of what’s happening is being chronicled,”
Sorry Putin, Ukraine will not tell you its military plans!
That's the problem: it does not make money.
The fediverse mean that the different instances can federate, but every instance after all still has its server and its expenses just like every web service since... always. Forums, chats, socials...
So far donations or pro bono from whoever is managing an instance, but unluckily this is not sustainable if user number skyrocket.
A way would be to somehow make everything p2p but I don't even know if it's possible for what is needed.
Everyone outside of USA uses other messaging apps.
No Android users outside of USA still use SMS.
Ma ovviamente se serve farlo va fatto, è l'unico modo di intervenire dopotutto.
Già gestire la propria istanza è un casino immenso, aver a che fare con tutte le altre complica il tutto.
Come succede ogni volta che qualcosa diventa famoso, attira anche attenzioni indesiderate.
Finchè si è quattro gatti è tutto più facile, ora arrivano i casini, e bisogna vedere come il fediverso riuscirà a gestirli.
Se al primo arrivo di spammer si parte con le defederazioni selvagge, il fediverso rischia di durare pochino.
Not sure about peertube or pixelfed, but I am sending this post from Mastodon, so depending on the situation you can.
@Instrument_Data
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