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What do you mean? Even non-profits have income and pay salaries to the people working there.
Many 501c3 orgs only bring income in through donations.
So what? The donations are also supposed to pay for the salaries of the people working there!
The argument is not "no for-profit system is sustainable", but "no instance is receiving to sustain those working"
Holy crap, arguing here sometimes feel like fighting an army of strawmen... Please stop putting your own ideology and how you think things should be and let's talk about what how things really are operating.
Kettle?
When you show me one instance that is able to handle a large number of users (more than 10k) and that is financed by voluntary donations, and that the people working on it are paid appropriately to their role and time spent on it, I will gladly concede that the model works.
Until then, we have about 15 years of history since Diaspora, and every attempt at keeping a "free as in beer" community has failed, and in lots of cases spectacularly so. From admins who got doxxed by their own "community", to people outright giving up on the whole idea (like the feddit.de) to cases where they felt so pressured to keep supporting the people that led them to commit suicide.
Sorry, what?