Eugen RochkoMastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.
Avery (She/Her)@Gargron and it's really cool how the fediverse scales by having admins create their own servers instead of having one big centralized server. that way, the costs to run individual instances can be kept below the point where they would be desperate enough to try hooking up with a VC! boy, it sure would be silly for anyone to try and scale their individual instance like crazy. i sure do hope that no instance, especially not a developer's dogfooding instance, focuses too hard on getting new users in spite of all this.