Isn’t that what most small business owners go through? My brother and his wife own a business and they hustle waaaay more than I need to as an employee of a large business with all the HR, retirement etc baked in. I don’t think they went net positive for like 4-5 years.

I got no problem with this. In the near term, I see no way to pay for journalism otherwise. Email addresses seem like a really short term solution to the AI problem, though.

Ha, glad to see our instance made the board!

Yeah, I’m in agreement with this sentiment. Threads is an an opportunity as much as it is a threat for the Fediverse.