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1. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 23:27:25 JST simsa04

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   • Joe Sondow
   Let me suggest to you instead:
   
   * Instances are not *places*. Instances are not places at all but *conversations*, most often mingling with others farer away.
   
   * Accordingly, not only are users dependent on their hosts but hosts are dependent on their users as well, for the quality of the conversations that take place, the atmosphere that rules the instance, and the reputation the instance "acquires" (or rather: *grows*) from that.
   
   Obviously one should support the host/admin in the various ways that are possible. But an instance is not an "appartment buidling" in which the landlord deals with raucous tenants ("My house, my rules"). Nor is it a "community". It's voices mingling, and ideas taking advantage of that, pursuing their own goals and destinations.
   
   #fediverse
   • Joe Sondow (joesondow@tabletop.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 23:27:32 JST Joe Sondow

     You’re not the product anymore. You’re a community member in your host’s ad-free server they pay for. There’s no venture capitalist payday coming for them. Everything you do here costs your host a little bit of money. Find out how you can chip in.