Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

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[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t mind having some ads, but I wonder how some more extremists users would react.

But I strongly believe that depending on donations is a very tough place to be, it places the burden of “begging” on the instance owners, which are already doing all the work and should definitely be compensated somehow.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

which are already doing all the work and should definitely be compensated somehow.

That's why I donate monthly to my instance :)

A pretty decent sized instance managed will uses a few boxes and some CDN, runs a couple to a few hundred a month, it doesn't take that many people paying to cover it.

It's not as bad managing the smaller instances. The app works like it says on the tin until you get really big.

IMO lemmy.world let themselves get WAY bigger than they should have. They had to start doing a hell of a lot more work to keep the thing up.

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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

But I strongly believe that depending on donations is a very tough place to be

If you get a good deal on hosting then, on medium-sized instance donations easily cover costs. lemmy.world suggests this can scale up a lot even if you need more complex systems in place to deal with demand.

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