This raises a good question: If a website’s business model does not work and they do not even break even, should that company even exist? What purpose/content/utility is it providing that justifies it continuing?
And that’s all websites. Even now the operating costs for this Lemmy instance and the Fediseer instance you are on and the Kbin instance I’m on is increasing just by us discussing this. Storage creep is a constant headache for the maintainers. It’s an ever increasing bill even with caching or offloading to S3 buckets or whatever.
So, I totally get the needed evil idea and it’s not wrong.
This raises a good question: If a website’s business model does not work and they do not even break even, should that company even exist? What purpose/content/utility is it providing that justifies it continuing?
And that’s all websites. Even now the operating costs for this Lemmy instance and the Fediseer instance you are on and the Kbin instance I’m on is increasing just by us discussing this. Storage creep is a constant headache for the maintainers. It’s an ever increasing bill even with caching or offloading to S3 buckets or whatever.
So, I totally get the needed evil idea and it’s not wrong.