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I love the idea. But, leaving aside the idea of federation (not against it, just aware that current implementations can't handle enough users to be useful) - how do you propose that infrastructure and developers should be paid in this model?

Look how hard Wikipedia has to fight for donations and how much pushback they get over it. Wikipedia is comparatively simple, infrastructure-wise. A nonprofit reddit would need a lot more money I think.

[kaba0]

> A nonprofit reddit would need a lot more money I think.

I don’t think so. The whole of stackoverflow is run from a single (though quite powerful) machine. Server/operation costs are cheap, employees are the big cost.

I think a donation-based model could trivially finance the service costs.

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> The whole of stackoverflow is run from a single (though quite powerful) machine

No, it's not.

But anyway Stack overflow is only text, it's an irrelevant comparison.