Re:Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
by charcircuit on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:56PM
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The incentives of optimizing for future revenue are different than those when you are optimizing for minimizing expenses. These values are not very comparable.
Which of those two is the one optimising for future revenue?
Not trying to be a smart arse - it’s just that the obvious pick (Twitter) has been aiming for revenue from the beginning and haven’t really delivered.
Re:Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
by charcircuit on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:48PM
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Twitter.
>has been aiming for revenue from the beginning and haven’t really delivered.
In 2021 twitter had 5.08 billion dollars of revenue. Their ad revenue divided by DAU was about $20. No mastodon instance is close to getting $20 per active user per year.
I’ve made the most basic of errors. I was thinking I was discussing profit.
Re:Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:44PM
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I find the comparison very interesting, in the broader debate of "how can not for profit services with no ads compete with giant for profit advertising based serices". I have really appreciated the analysis in this thread.
I feel like it's a bargain social media, both in feature-set and cost.
(I don't understand the server cost breakdown either, and I don't pretend do. Just doing an empirical comparison).