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Humans are not interchangeable components... that's a disgusting take, honestly...
Every community I've been in can feel through loss in some way, of a member.
This attitude is exactly why you cannot fathom why maybe small instances, ran by volunteers for the community is a viable concept.
Its also why BBSes started their death spiral: people trying to commoditize the community.
We are talking about different things. Very different things.
I am not saying that small communities are not viable. I am saying that without substantial financial support, all we are going to get is small communities, and we are not going to be able to compete with the corporate mainstream.
If your ambition is just to keep some obscure corner of the internet, fine. If you want to take back the internet away from Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Reddit, then we need to get a lot more help than just a dozen people pitching in to cover server bills. It will require work. It will require coordination. It will require resilience. It will require sacrifices.
Being upset at Zuckerberg, or making campaigns to "Boycott Threads" is not going to do anything if our side is orders of magnitude smaller than theirs. They will still be exploiting their users. And even if you personally don't use it, or your "community" doesn't use it, there are still plenty of people that I care about that do.
I dunno if I speak for everyone else, but all we need are small.communities.
We are not "competing" with anyone or anything.
That's the root of your issue, and it's based on a false premise.