If the fediverse is going to be a decentralized, non-commercial network, and it works properly, I’m willing to contribute some share, as long as there’s transparency about the costs and the budget. Do we have access about this information for any instance in general, or for @world in particular?
This is going to have to be a per-instance thing. Smaller instances may be fine indefinitely with no donations/outside funding, but large instances will eventually require dedicated hardware or kubernetes clusters to scale adequately. Larger instances absolutely should run funding drives as they need to in order to keep up with their expenses. That, or we get ads on here eventually… which would suck