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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The reality is that the bigger a website/service gets, the more money it costs to run. Something like imgur especially would cost absurd amounts of money to run. If it can’t be monetised then it will die. The same thing will happen to any competitors that pop up claiming to be better - it’s just the nature of business. Hosting and bandwidth and hardware and employees aren’t free.

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ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Seems like it did okay for many years before selling to private equity that absolutely destroyed the site and filled it with obtrusive advertising

There’s probably a middle ground between a project like lemmy (for example) and whatever imgur has become
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other_cat@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

If it can’t be monetised then it will die.

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- FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The same will happen with fediverse instances if they ever get big enough………
  
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  - other_cat@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There are a lot of servers, and anyone can spin up one if they want to and have the capability. I thought the point of the fediverse was to decentralize–and ideally there wouldn’t be any singularly “big” instances. I know there are, but there doesn’t necessarily have to be.
    
    At any rate I donate to Zip because I think they’re great and I can and I do want them to continue. No need for them to do anything more than that to earn my desire to support them.
    
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    FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The very nature of discussion boards mean that they’re always going to centralise discussion eventually, no matter how decentralised the user base is.
    
    No one wants to have 25 different small tech communities that all post the same article, so they go to the one that has the most users. It took all of a week after the Reddit exodus for a few fediverse instances to become the clear centralised ones.
    
    Decentralisation of user accounts is irrelevant and almost pointless when all of the discussion is centralised on one main instance. The only real way it can be decentralised in a way that matters is if every /technology (for example) essentially merge together and all instantly sync all comments and threads from all instances in real time, with automatic addition of new instances whenever they start a similar community. This brings many, many challenges though.
    
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