@sumergoconicio at the current scale level it’s about $125/mo, including compute and email services. I expect to get to 10-25k users it might be around $300, which I could probably offset with a donate option; I’m thinking that through. Either way I could justify that expense for R+D purposes, so I’m not uncomfortable with the commitment relative to the value and learning provided.

“Replacing” Twitter, which may not be feasible or desirable, is not necessarily the right answer…

@sumergoconicio another frame: what approaches will allow us to 1) complicate our social ties, 2) deal with existential issues like climate, 3) result in fewer mass shootings vs. more, 4) curb radicalization, 5) make extremism niche again.

An outcomes-based model seems appropriate vs. trying to maximize scale, engagement, profit. Oh, and do all this without fueling Ayn Rand fantasies about gold/money and objectivism.