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I was wondering about what would happen if you started a nonprofit and ran a Lemmy/Mastodon instance and charge like 1 or 2 bucks a month. So if it gets flooded with users you have money to scale it up. And hire admins and such. You get the stability and centralization of a corporation but no profit motive
my home instance is hosted by sdf.org, a 30+ year-old non-profit org that is sustained entirely by voluntary donation (as in membership is free). You should look them up.
I had a shell account there many years ago didn't know they had a Lemmy instance thanks for reminding me about them.