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[–] 64 points 10 months ago (3 children)

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, the moment paying for Lemmy becomes commonplace, is the moment financial interests would ruin everything. A donation model makes more sense.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Co-op is just donation model with voting rights. Like a community non-profit organisation

    Sure http://piefed.influercercancer.social/ could decide to have paid content but that’s their decision. Any other instance can de-federate from them as easily as they can a Nazi instance

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    You'd like lemmy.dbzer0.com (lemmy) or anarchist.nexus (piefed) then. Run by the same folks.

    Not a co-op, but they've put in place systems for instance users to democratically vote on all big administrative changes, any user can start a "radical" vote to oust any mod or admin, and people who have donated to the running costs (even just once) get more vote. Enough that people invested get more weight, but they wouldn't be able to completely override the will of the rest of the userbase.

    Politically anarchist, pro-piracy (head admin and creator is former head mod of reddit's r/piracy), accepting of AI (mostly pushing for local models, so corps aren't the only ones with power) but don't really have issues with anti-corp-AI views as long as you aren't being a dick to the pro-AI comms/users.

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