I know anyone can spin up an instance. So who is hosting lemmy.world, and how much are they paying for hosting? If this is going to replace r-word someday, it will need a lot of resources and money to keep it running.

    • itadakimasu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If you build it, they will come,

      I feel in this case we also have some of the opposite: they are coming, you will build it.

      For sometime like Lemmy, the more people that are active, the more people need to donate to keep up with operation costs and to also make it worth while to the host.

      Most user supported services thrive, if there is interest.

    • dotfiles@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks! I read it just now, so one person is paying for hosting. Where is the money coming from, we can’t expect them to keep renting a dedicated VPS forever.

  • pacology@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The guy running lemmy world posts quarterly expense reports. You should find them through google.

    IIRC, this instance is hosted on a dedicated hetzner server. They usually have auctions for them so you could host an instance for around $100 a month.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can’t directly answer your question, but I can say that I’m responding from lemmy.ca, where the hoster has provided all that information stickied from the front page. We know who owns it, how he’s hosting it, what the data volume is, and how much it costs per month to maintain. As subscribers increase, so do the costs, and hopefully so do the donations.

    No one instance is going to replace the digg successor; various instances will come and go over time, just like web sites or email hosts. Some will cost money to join, others will have various other requirements. And they’ll all federate with some but not all other lemmy instances.