Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: npub15nw5e…9s0l7 My hunch is that it's an estimate of the average cost of a user on ...
npub15nw5evkeefrzezpznfp28sx7rzyhhdc0gam6rfwhrqjq5qcdrehsp9s0l7 (npub15nw…s0l7) My hunch is that it's an estimate of the average cost of a user on the platform - approximately the total cost of running the platform (engineers, moderators, accountants, lawyers, servers, facilities, support staff...) divided by the number of users on the platform.
Even in that case, it's way off the target. Facebook's operating expenses accounted to about $80B last year (https://tradingeconomics.com/fb:usoperating-expenses). And the platform has about 3B users. That would make the actual per head contribution closer to $26/year, if they wanted to reach revenue parity (and I'm pretty sure that many would be horrified even by that price tag). But a cost of $1000/year actually makes sense for smaller platforms - on one extreme of the spectrum you have single user Fediverse instances, where all the costs are spread over a single person, and on the other extreme you have Facebook, where the costs are spread over a huge user base and economies of scale definitely help.
Even in that case, it's way off the target. Facebook's operating expenses accounted to about $80B last year (https://tradingeconomics.com/fb:usoperating-expenses). And the platform has about 3B users. That would make the actual per head contribution closer to $26/year, if they wanted to reach revenue parity (and I'm pretty sure that many would be horrified even by that price tag). But a cost of $1000/year actually makes sense for smaller platforms - on one extreme of the spectrum you have single user Fediverse instances, where all the costs are spread over a single person, and on the other extreme you have Facebook, where the costs are spread over a huge user base and economies of scale definitely help.