Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: npub15nw5e…9s0l7 You can not take an existing market and apply different rules to ...
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You can not take an existing market and apply different rules to it and then predict some future.
I took the current operating costs, the total number of users, and came up with the average operating cost per user as a benchmark of the minimum price that should be asked. This is a quite standard way to identify the lower bar for an ask price, as the minimum price that you should charge to at least keep the boat balanced. Sure, not the most accurate, but a good one to at least get an idea of the order of magnitude. If you have better ideas, you’re welcome to share them.
it’s very poetic of you saying “free as in beer is never sustainable” on a free as in beer/freedom platform
I run my own instance on my own server in my own closet in my own house. And I’ve made contributions both to the software and to the protocol. I can talk about sustainability because my digital presence doesn’t weigh on anybody’s shoulders but mine - and I’ve come to the conclusion that I should host most of my services exactly to avoid the “free beer” entitlement trap. If I didn’t have time nor skills to do this myself, I’d probably contribute financially to offset the costs of running somebody else’s instance. But many don’t have this level of sensitivity. Many, both here and on Facebook, take their free beer for granted. And this is the mindset that I’d like to challenge.
You can not take an existing market and apply different rules to it and then predict some future.
I took the current operating costs, the total number of users, and came up with the average operating cost per user as a benchmark of the minimum price that should be asked. This is a quite standard way to identify the lower bar for an ask price, as the minimum price that you should charge to at least keep the boat balanced. Sure, not the most accurate, but a good one to at least get an idea of the order of magnitude. If you have better ideas, you’re welcome to share them.
it’s very poetic of you saying “free as in beer is never sustainable” on a free as in beer/freedom platform
I run my own instance on my own server in my own closet in my own house. And I’ve made contributions both to the software and to the protocol. I can talk about sustainability because my digital presence doesn’t weigh on anybody’s shoulders but mine - and I’ve come to the conclusion that I should host most of my services exactly to avoid the “free beer” entitlement trap. If I didn’t have time nor skills to do this myself, I’d probably contribute financially to offset the costs of running somebody else’s instance. But many don’t have this level of sensitivity. Many, both here and on Facebook, take their free beer for granted. And this is the mindset that I’d like to challenge.