I think it could be very desirable. I like the idea of hanging out at a place that isn't beholden to any special interests. That said, I'm intimately familiar with how much work it takes to start up and maintain a social media platform. It's insane. The monetary costs aren't much at first, but as they scale they get expensive. The biggest costs so far have all been labor/time.

We are approaching a time when we will need to begin to bring in some semblance of revenue to keep Hubski afloat so we don't keep pulling money out of our own pockets and so our families don't beat us with a stick for spending so much time on something. -It definitely brings us a ton of joy but you can't pay for daycare with joy. -Unfortunately.

We are in the process of discussing how we will facilitate such things, but I can tell you that the idea of it being sustained by the community is the most attractive option to us. We have websites that use "Discussion Via Hubski" so we cannot be a walled off community, so a pay-to-play model won't work.

I'm excited to come up with something that fits our ethos and serves both Hubski and the Hubski community well. We will be presenting ideas to the community soon in order to gain feedback.