On the Fireside Fedi interview with Jerry ( the admin of Infosec.Exchange Mastodon instance ) a scary truth was suddenly revealed ( on 34:11 ): Just to keep the instance up and running he needs to spend up to $5000 a month, pretty much out of his pocket. Donations to the instance barely cover any of that. And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.
If you believe he’s spending $5k/mo to run the server, even if you send him $20 and he blows it on blackjack and hookers, it means he has to spend $20 of his bj/h money on the server. So I don’t really see an issue. Does that make sense?
The transparency is needed to know if the server is actually costing $5000
Not that the server cost only $500 and the rest go to cocaine and hookers
I don’t need to keep track of my bill precisely, what I want is budget transparency.
If somebody says it costs $5000/mo, how could they say it in a different way that you would define as “transparent” - do you want receipts?