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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If admins need more money, they can ask for help to their communities.

Lemmy.zip seems to be doing okay: https://lemmy.zip/post/29448608?scrollToComments=true

Lemm.ee had a question about a donation link and never answered https://lemm.ee/post/49850162?scrollToComments=true

I know a few instance admins who runs their instances on hardware they would be using anyway.

Again, if some server admins need help with money, they should definitely ask, but I haven't seen such request ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Again, if some server admins need help with money, they should definitely ask, but I haven’t seen such request ever.

Do you realize the issue with this reasoning? Here's a hint.

Survivorship Bias

You don't see admins "asking for money" to help because there are not that many admins that are willing to put up all the work that is required to run an instance upfront. Let's normalize the idea that admins and moderators should get paid for their work, and you can bet that there will be a lot more people showing up.