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The payments make sense, though. The market for Usenet providers and indexers is very capitalist.

You try to find the organizations who can catch and index posts from the people you're interested in, at the lowest cost.

It is uncomfortable, but I think the fediverse may need to be more ephemeral than most centralized social networks today. If you shout into the void and nobody hears you...a centralized network will archive your thoughts, but a decentralized one will let them die out as soon as your server does.

It may not be a bad thing. People will re-upload useful content and personally, I'm glad that my 12-year-old self's online musings are lost to the wind.