I think if you want Mods/Devs/Admins to have better impact, they actually need to have funding. People focus on funding hosting costs, but everyone seems to be assuming that Mods/Devs should be volunteers.
If you’re not donating in some way to the instances/software you use…please start.
As an example, lemmy.world is run by https://fedihosting.foundation, who also run mastodon.world and many other instances. AFAICT the whole group takes in a little over $1000 a month through Patreon/ko-fi. That’s barely enough to cover hosting costs for so many huge instances, much less compensate the several dozen volunteers.
I think if you want Mods/Devs/Admins to have better impact, they actually need to have funding. People focus on funding hosting costs, but everyone seems to be assuming that Mods/Devs should be volunteers.
If you’re not donating in some way to the instances/software you use…please start.
As an example, lemmy.world is run by https://fedihosting.foundation, who also run mastodon.world and many other instances. AFAICT the whole group takes in a little over $1000 a month through Patreon/ko-fi. That’s barely enough to cover hosting costs for so many huge instances, much less compensate the several dozen volunteers.