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To be quite honest, I wouldn't mind sponsored posts as a way to support a community or instance, as long as they were completely disclosed as so and if the sponsor had no control over the moderation.
Fuck ads, they're everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.
No one is forcing you to see them, especially given that this is an open source system with open source clients.
Also, how much are you paying/contributing to the developers, admins and moderators in order to avoid the need of alternative methods of funding?
I've been saying this for over a year. The era of free stuff on the internet is coming to a close. Be prepared to pay or self host things you're used to getting for free. It's what got me into self hosting.
I agree so much with you, I am running a commercial provider for Fediverse services for almost five years. The problem is that we are still a very tiny minority relative to the amount of internet users.
I mean, you're definitely not wrong. All of these mbin sites are typically pretty small but once they cross the point where you're looking at getting a second server to keep the site running then prices start to escalate.
Modern servers are pretty good but I believe depending on how well the software is written that should be somewhere around 10,000 concurrent users.
If they are using cloud hosting their prices will escalate alongside their user counts but if they are using co-location or something like that they have to go out and buy additional boxes at the cost of several thousand dollars a piece and pay for extra space in the colocation center.
They should definitely make it easy for us to contribute to running the site or at the very least do regular planned donation drives kind of like Wikipedia.
If we get instance sponsors it will probably in the instance sidebar, but for now we don't quite need them