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.
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.
This might give you a little info
https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world
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.
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.
They have a bunch of donation sites set up so you can contribute if you like. Links can be found in their April/May financial report post.
https://blog.mastodon.world/april-and-may-2023-financial-update
Just to add, to anyone who has the ability, please donate to your instance owners when you can. There’s no big corpo backing them/us here, so we’re really in this together now.