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Volunteering is great, but is it really *volunteering with no kickbacks*? Because, when people say volunteer, what typically comes to (my) mind is, 'out of their own expense', as opposed to anything dealing with compensation. Every sub, modteam, community is different, in taste or 'required maintenance (for user enjoyment/participation)'; but, comparatively speaking, I typically look at the provisioning of starting our own communities and api access as privileges, not requirements.
There's definitely some middle ground this falls into, but I think everyone gets lost in the middle; between running your own server server & services, paying for your own bandwidth and using all open source software, versus selecting the right provider for 'all of that techno bs'.
On the do it yourself - be the change you wish to see in the (open) source community - side of things, I think its a lot more clear where 'the workers party' should be aligned. More capability is more capability, and very simple to imagine and pursue, as far as (setting) goals go.
On the other side - when looking for professional solutions and mediation, hence needing api access - people just want to be 'treated right', or have access to 'their own data'
There's nothing here!