!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
181 points (95.9% liked)
Fediverse memes
1542 readers
209 users here now
Memes about the Fediverse.
Rules
General
- Be respectful
- Post on topic
- No bigotry or hate speech
Specific
- We are not YPTB. If you have a problem with the way an instance or community is run, then take it up over at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com.
- Addendum: Yes we know that you think ml/hexbear/grad are tankies and or .world are a bunch of liberals but it gets old quickly. Try and come up with new material.
Elsewhere in the Fediverse
Other relevant communities:
- !fediverse@lemmy.world
- !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !lemmydrama@lemmy.world
- !fediverselore@lemmy.ca
- !bestofthefediverse@lemmy.ca
- !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
founded 9 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
"Owned by its users?"
Come on man, how many of us pay for the servers, and how many admins do we actually elect?
This is another reddit, with the benefit that we can jump to a neighbouring clone to stop the admins from getting too uppity.
That's it, and I love it.
You elect them by using their instance
That's a really fair point
Depends on your instance. feddit.uk is 100% funded by donations, as are most medium to large instances that accept them.
I would argue that feddit.uk is still registered under someone's name, and that the server is owned by someone. If that one person wants to sellout X years from now, they fully can
I was just talking about the funding. A number of users do pay for the servers, because of the relatively low cost of running an instance a small percentage of them cover all the bills.
On ownership, that's the way of the beast on what usually start out as hobby instances. I'm sure as things mature and grow a lot of us will move to establish nonprofits.
Worth noting that, for feddit.uk, I run the server and GA runs the domains, so we'd both have to agree to a sell-out. Also we didn't start the instance, just took it over when the original Admin went AWOL, so we've successfully transferred the assets before and, if Lemmy lasts long enough, we'll do it again as we get too decrepit to keep things going.
The funding is key to this as it is all done through Open Collective, so it isn't in an Admin's bank account and so changing Admins is straightforward on that front.
Oh, I have to admit that the OpenCollective funding model is a very nice way of keeping things level.
That's an inevitable part of community, it requires trust. Users need to trust admins not to mess around with the service and admins need to trust users to not make maintaining the service untenable.
Federation also helps balance the dynamic here as admins can't hold the community hostage like they can on closed systems.
I pay monthly to my admin!