If we do hope for the fediverse to supplant centralized social networks, while being able to support the storage/bandwidth requirements that come with a userbase that huge, advertising is inevitable as one of the sources to financially sustain instances.
Not to be brash, but thinking a future fediverse the size of FB/Twitter/etc can operate solely on donation-supported instances is plain delusional.
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