Strypey@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz: Take music publishing as an example. If artists commit to making bandwagon.fm the primary online home for their music, they need to be sure that it will continue to exist, and they will get plenty of notice before it's shut down. Which means the people running it need to have a plan for how they will cover the costs of storing and serving a growing collection of music files, long term. <br><br>(8/?)

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Strypey@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz (2026-04-15 09:51:36)
Some of the considerations for social publishing services, that aren't so much of an issue for social communication services;

* persistence and responsible sunsetting

* storage and bandwidth costs

* accountable governance

* Bring Your Own Domain

To be clear, I'm not saying these things aren't helpful in communication services, they certainly are. They're just not as mission critical as they are in publishing services.

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Strypey@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz (2026-04-15 09:56:40)
Take music publishing as an example. If artists commit to making bandwagon.fm the primary online home for their music, they need to be sure that it will continue to exist, and they will get plenty of notice before it's shut down. Which means the people running it need to have a plan for how they will cover the costs of storing and serving a growing collection of music files, long term. 

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Strypey@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz (2026-04-15 10:03:31)
We all know about the ways tech founders have sold their souls for funding to keep their platforms online; ads, Venture Capital, acquisition by corporations, or becoming one (IPO). Obviously we need ethical alternatives for social web services.

But not just alternative funding models. We also need alternative governance models, which keep the operators of services accountable to the people using them.

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