I agree I’m pretty pissy and numb to the former reddit and now lemmy crowd. It’s all just bitching that everything should be free without looking into the reality of costs (among others off topic topics). I want a decentralized network to happen but I am 100% expecting the community to fuck it up.
This is like year of the Linux desktop for social media just playing out in duplicate with no understanding why Linus desktop never took off.
You can do whatever the heck you want. Successful communities are rarely successful at scale without funding. Debian, RHEL, C, Rust, Go, Apache, Nginx, Ruby, JS, etc all have a considerable commercial backing. Nothing tells me anyone had a viable long term plan for ensuring privacy and stability.