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This is a very interesting article about the long-term sustainability of the Fediverse for moderators, administrators, and developers. We've already had two of our lovely Beehaw admins take breaks to take care of themselves as they experience the burnout associated with maintaining a community, and I think for a lot of use we already know how exhausting it can be to take a center stage position in an online community.

Unfortunately, I don't have any great starting points for what to do, but at least talking about it is a start.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was thinking about that too. Right now most instances rely wholly on donations from their users. The fediverse probably needs something like the linux foundation or clound native computing foundation to help cover costs for instances that get unexpectedly huge