No, I didn’t. Probably because you never said you did. Weird how that works.

Now, had you said “Hey, I run a business, something like this would probably cost X per year and I think I would have Y users. Which would mean I’d minimally have to charge Z to make this viable” I probably would have given my input.

Well I’m glad you would go into the depth of researching the economic viability of something when you think “I’d like to have this amenity”.

But I don’t. Because why the fuck would I?

If someone wants to go through the work of researching the costs of setting up such a service, layout the costs, and make some proposals and how much they’d need to charge to the community I’d happily contribute.

Until then…dude you took an offhand “Hey I’d like to see something like this” and turned it into some weird obsession with making me name how much i’d spend on something.

I want a kebab shop down the street. You gonna demand I tell you how much I’d pay for a kebab and then wildly insult the community for not doing it themselves?

without any reward

It is called a business. Someone sees a potential opportunity (through, i dunno. People talking about how much they’d like it), does the research, determines if it’s a viable investment on their part, and either starts it up or doesn’t.

Of course I didn’t respond to it. Because it has nothing to do with my point. Im not going to go out there and do extensive business research just to satisfy your weird demand.

It’s something I’d like to see someone take on. It’s something I’d wager other people would like to see take on. The economic viability I leave to anyone that wants to take it on.

Regular auditing of the infrastructure" seems like a very enterprise-y thing to expect from a basic SaaS.

That’s the entire point. Offer a premium service when compared to the alternatives and you get to bring in revenue.

Currently, every instance essentially makes a pinky promise that our data isn’t being used maliciously. An audit provides assurances they are.

I would love to see hosts start offering subscription based instances and do things like paying for regular auditing of their infrastructure to give us some assurance that our data is actually secure.

I’d legitimately pay for that.

wait till Jack decides ita time to cash out

I mean, you don’t like BlueSky, fair. But Jack Dorsey left like…over a year ago.