You are significantly underestimating the costs of running infrastructure, and the expectations of users.
Moderation requires significant funds as it is not a part time task. Same for development.
Storage and compute are not cheap if you are trying to make it reliable. You also need to consider that many of these extremely-low-cost services break down under load and have unstable pricing, especially as seen in the recent HW crisis.
Expecting lurkers to pay $1/mo is very unlikely, unless you have forced ads. The idea of even pulling our your credit card will lose 95% of people.
Anyway, did Claude write this? Claude’s answers especially are not grounded in reality, and it prefers working backwards from a desired result, than to start with a question that needs answering.
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2026-06-03 23:01:11 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…t9fc
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