Pillowfort, a (non-federated) Tumblr-alternative, is closing down (www.pillowfort.social)

submitted 5 days ago by zloubida@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Maybe some of its users will join the Fediverse? But where should they go, I don't think there's a federated Tumblr clone.

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[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

The donation model works for a very few groups, but for the vast majority of OSS and freehosted projects, donations are nowhere close to covering costs.

Even lemmy.world is viable because they only count server costs, and are volunteer run. If they had to cover staffing costs, it would be untenable.

[-] kazerniel@quokk.au 1 points 3 days ago

true that!

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