this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Even if we get used to paying for our online services, that shouldn't bring us back to proprietary networks like Facebook. We should rather get used to paying for the free alternatives. With the recent surge in interest for the fediverse, keeping it grow will eventually lead to users needing to pay for it, since the servers are already overloaded and there are no ad revenues to cover the maintenance. But it's a good thing we start paying what we can for networks (and software in general) that serve common interests rather than corporate ones, because that's the most effective way to mitigate the negative impact of the social internet.