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At some point they are going to have to make money.
The fediverse:
Social media in general don't need to. Atpor servers operators in general don't need to. But Bluesky does, because it's accountable in front of its investors. So yes, they do have to make money, and no, there is no solution that does not go with some level of enshittification. And then they'll get pressed to make more money, to grow their revenues every year. And it can only go down from there.
Social media is simply not profitable without degrading the experience.
I agree that the server operators will need to do something to recoup costs. It's gonna be non-targeted ads, local to a server, or it's gonna be subscription. Or - ugh - it's gonna be selling our activities to some vendor. And there's gonna be a bit where some op goes too far and we all bail. Sure.
But we can bail, almost. And we can pick a better server. And we can vote against the fucking algorithm with our feet.
And while the idea that server ops need to break even is unpopular, it is the reality that's coming.
Everything from lemmy.world all the way up to Wikipedia do just fine on donations.
AI is totally profitable!