SwizzleStick

Monetizing is what ruins other places.

I like the way my home instance does financial backing through an open model, and that’s part of why I chose it.

An ideal is enough contributors to keep the lights on and to reimburse the admins for their time spent in keeping it afloat. Moderation should always be a volunteer position for those that want to support their individual communities.

Any excesses in finance I would hope go towards future running costs (to a point), feature development and then charitable donations in that order. Non-profit on paper and in practice.

This is viable for a small instance. Maybe even larger ones if the users are altruistic enough as a whole.

So they do.

That’s really neat!

Site either respects system light/dark theme or is dark by default. Either way, it’s a plus for me that is often forgotten.

Guides are simple enough and the illustrations are cute.

You’ve got the balance of plugging your own instance while reminding visitors that there are others just right.

All useful info and not so much of it that it is overbearing.

It would be better if the server could detect bots and send them down a rabbit hole

Already possible: Nepenthes.