this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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Wow, such transparency... that's awesome. I wonder (hope) if there will be a massive spike in donations in June.
/me sets alarm to remind me to donate after work since I keep thinking about it while I'm away.
Ya, no kidding. This piqued my interest, but I did not click expecting to see an actual cost basis! I have been looking at potentially setting up my own node, but at the same time... Perhaps contributing here, financially as well, could be the best option.
Still fun to play around with my own stuff though :) Thanks guys!
He is a Dutchie, that must be why.
I guess so.
Iirc, Isn't the lemmy.world vps around €200 PM?
Thanks for the instance and good work btw, I know it's not easy running this stuff.
Yeah 180, for now it's overkill but I prefer that over scaling up every day.
Where can I donate?
Derp, found it: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld
I have a small, private Lemmy site, a personal Calckey site, and some blogs that I run off of a VPS that I pay like $13/month for. The server is overkill by an order of magnitude for what I'm using it for. Based on current usage, I could support a few hundred active users without ever taking a dime from anyone, though I'm sure media expenses don't scale well. That said, there are collective media projects like Jortage out there that have the potentially to significantly reduce media hosting costs for small sites.
This sort of openness and transparency around finances and the need for donations should become the norm (however awesome it is to see from ruud).
IMO, with more transparency, the more normal it will seem to donate and the less grating it will be to ask for donations.
Don't forget to consider donating to developers of lemmy and/or your mobile app of choice!