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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin, etc).

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Pillowfort, a (non-federated) Tumblr-alternative, is closing down (www.pillowfort.social)

submitted 2 days ago by zloubida@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Maybe some of its users will join the Fediverse? But where should they go, I don't think there's a federated Tumblr clone.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't have any sources, but I feel like I've seen that model before and it doesn't seem to have worked so far for most people.

[–] kazerniel@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a monthly donation going to the nonprofit running Lemmy.world as it was my server for the longest time, and it seems to work for them?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The donation model works for a very few groups, but for the vast majority of OSS and freehosted projects, donations are nowhere close to covering costs.

Even lemmy.world is viable because they only count server costs, and are volunteer run. If they had to cover staffing costs, it would be untenable.

[–] kazerniel@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago

true that!