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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  With something like this… maybe a model where the codenisn open source, but also, somehow, a listing costs a small amount, to help cover server costs, would make sense?

  A ‘membership’ regular payment model probably would not work… for anyone other than ‘supersellers’…

  Or, maybe, there could be a way to… federate/distribute the server processing itself.

  Allow vokunteers to run an process that basicslly serves as a distibuted host.

  … hrm…

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