• rglullis@communick.news
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    1 year ago

    Why is profit a problem? How do you account for the cost of the labor of the developers, or the time spent by volunteers?

    Just providing a service that people actually want to use.

    Why isn’t that deserving of profit?

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      1 year ago

      If we’re talking about my dream, that is my dream. A platform that isn’t trying to make money. It’s not wrong to want to make money, but a platform that is trying to make money isn’t my dream platform.

      All of my favourite stuff is run by non-profits.

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        1 year ago

        I think that my argument here is that “the platform” doesn’t exist. The fediverser (much like the internet) is not made of one single entity that defines its direction.