The trick for me has been diversification. Firefox replaced RIF.

There’s !elderscrolls@lemmy.ml

Good choice, who wants to deal with a hundred thousand instagram users sitting in between every fediverse user.

How about an annual renewal fee that increases exponentially over time? The mouse can afford it.

I’ve been on giant, corporate owned services for so long, I kinda forgot what it’s like to be out in the cottage industry of small websites.

The infinite growth ended. COVID moved everyone online that it could. There’s no new people to move online, so there’s no future growth to promise, and they have to make money off of their existing userbase.