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Re:Mastodon.technology Shutdown by galaxyLogic on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:46PM (#33128374)
Maintaining anything takes effort, so who's gonna do it for free?

Maybe there could be a variant of NNTP which allowed some amount of advertisement posts in between. Then let the maintainers keep the proceeds from those?

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Re:Mastodon.technology Shutdown by vidarh on Saturday October 08, 2022 @09:11AM (#33132007)
For NNTP there's a whole (small) industry around providing paid subscriptions.
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