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  • Let’s get rid of open registration instances

    How?

    Nobody is stopping any of your bullet points from happening. Those are all options today. Any one of those groups can spin up an instance and nobody is going to stop them. Some already have

    But isn’t the idea of forcing someone to (not) run their own server however they want antithetical to the whole concept of the fediverse?

    You can defederate your personal server from open registration servers if you want. But you can’t “get rid of open registration instances.” That’s just stupid.


  • That’s a decision for each server admin to decide for themselves. This particular admin has apparently decided that $5000/mo is worth it to them to run a server without ever asking people to pitch in, which I find absolutely bizarre, but whatever.

    They can go a long way towards reducing that cost themselves by… asking their users to pitch in. Some people will pitch in, and reduce their out of pocket expenses. Others will leave, further reducing their out of pocket expenses.

    If they haven’t done the bare minimum that they can do to help themselves, then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve.


  • And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.

    Ok? What on earth would be the motivation to let these people keep spending your money instead of letting them go spend someone else’s?

    ETA: Especially if their reason for leaving is that you had the audacity to ask them to pitch in for the cost of the resources that they’re using. Oh, the humanity.