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Who will pay for lemmy? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First post, honest question.

Who will pay for lemmy? There were a few sites that started sometime back because they were fed up with something about reddit but eventually they all crashed because they had no funds. How will lemmy be different?

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[–] burndown 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy is going to be in the "let's see how this works" period for a while

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of admins have patreon accounts set up for donations.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My instance has a thread for costings/donations, we're months ahead.

Per person, it's honestly crazy cheap.

Edit: https://aussie.zone/post/37359

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Awesome, that's the first actual number figure I've seen for hosting costs. Mind if I ask how many users that is? I've no concept of 'how much is suitable' - I realise that things will change as Lemmy scales, but I've no idea whether we're talking a couple of quid a year per user at the moment, or per month, or what.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting. What are the traffic / image storage demands for your instance?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

When you're not looking to make a massive profit things get crazy affordable.