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Because things, unfortunately, cost money to run. Digital crowdsourcing isn’t magic, it requires adequate infrastructure to run and facilitate said crowdsourcing data.

Static maps are easy, load em up on a server and people just download one way. Sure it might get a little slow when busy but eh.

Live things however require constant near-real-time communication to be useful. And that requires servers and bandwidth and other infrastructure.

And that’s not even going into how the premium fee goes back into further development and refinement of other features and maintenance.

And before you say “Well, federation!” I say well look at the Threadiverse, each is comprised of individual instances that’s true. But each instance, has a bill they have to pay to keep running.

Tbf, that’s dirt cheap and getting used to “free” products like Google Maps with live traffic is kinda how we got in this mess on the first place LMAO

I don’t think having a paywall in of itself is bad, so long as it’s a good affordable and reasonable price and isnt going to some giant corpo

Claims to promote smaller instances, only posts to the same communities on the largest servers…

Yes the large instance of poweruser.forum !jellyfin@poweruser.forum or !cybersecurity@infosec.pub or !science@mander.xyz or !biology@mander.xyz oh yea definitely the massive instance of discuss.online !retro_gaming@discuss.online or !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org or !hoch@lemmy.sdf.org or the juggernaut of instances civilloquy.com !nottheonion@civilloquy.com or even *gasp" lemmy.cafe !gunnerkrigg@lemmy.cafe or even !corvids@sopuli.xyz or !mediapreservation@pawb.social or !TheShitpostOffice@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !electronics@discuss.tchncs.de or !music@lemmy.sdf.org

My reasoning is as follows: Promoting smaller instances, because of the volume of posting it makes smaller instances more recognizable, making comms on fitting smaller instances, protecting against the imposter problem and better interconnecting smaller instances

Besides, if I really wanted to do block evasion, it would be far more efficient to use random names. Each account would last far longer before becoming “recognized”

Also, unlike corpo social media, likes and upvotes are worthless here.

It’s funny how you deleted that comment that was telling returntoozma he also posts “junk” just before this one lmao

I usually go some hours between posts of similar articles, to try to break them up. They might stack if you’re viewing a comm directly if it isn’t that busy of one, but they shouldn’t on your main feeds

You seem to think every article and comment is junk, my serial downvoting friend :)