• Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      But a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

      Indeed. We are already struggling to get users and content, adding a paywall would probably kill the platform

    • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      a paywall adds a considerable barrier to entry.

      The idea is to get rid of “instances with open registrations”. It doesn’t mean that paywalled instances are the only way to achieve that.

      • We can have more people running their own small servers to share with their friends
      • We can have companies providing ActivityPub accounts to customers of their services (e.g, sign-up to the NYT and get access to any of the servers managed by Mastodon GmbH)
      • We can have companies operating their own AP servers for their employees
      • We can have phone/internet companies giving access to their AP servers as long as they have a contract or a positive balance on the top-up
      • We can have “pay it forward” instances: admins put up donations, but they explicitly declare how much they want per active user account. The instance only accepts new registrations when it has secured the resources.