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[โ€“] delcake@piefed.zip 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what the reason for this theoretical is when it's already documented that self-hosted instances have full free access to the paid perks.

It's become pretty clear since all of this kicked off that none of the Discord-replacement hopefuls have the infrastructure to accept even the smallest fraction of users fleeing Discord. Paying for some nice-to-have features when using the official instance is at least a plan towards paying for that infrastructure.

Speaking on a more broad level, I find it more suspicious when services are free these days with no path to self-sufficient monetization. We've seen enough of those fall to venture capital influence at this point.

[โ€“] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you, that's a very interesting perspective. I wasn't aware of the plutonium thing.