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Welcome IAmA! This is a place where people make posts and other people can then ask them questions
This version of the community is oriented towards topics relevant to the programming.dev communities
example post title: I am a game developer for X video game company, ask me anything
All posts must contain some form of proof showing that you are actually who you claim to be by connecting you to your lemmy username (if youre not famous that could just be editing your github or making a mastodon post in an account you use and then linking it as a minimum)
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Would you be able to share an estimate of monthly costs associated with hosting this instance? I don't need an exact number, just an idea of the budget you should have ready if you want Lemmy on VCS.
current costs are around $2.1k a year so divided by 12 months would be $175 a month. Part of that was due to the initial domain name purchase though which was $580
Thank you! Now that I think about, I'll make sure to donate a bit, it sounds like a pretty expensive hobby and so far, I really like this instance.
Have you maybe considered some kind of supporter badges for accounts? I wouldn't include any other benefits to not alienate the userbase too much, but almost every time I've actually realized that I should donate to some project I really liked was thanks to someone having a supporter badge, even though I've seen numerous banners or messages asking for donations - which may be because they are so frequent and resemble ads too much, that I'm conditioned to just not pay any attention to them by default. But a supporter badge may inspire some more people to donate.
yeah ive been thinking about that as a way to show supporters. Might be something that can be added in once I get flairs down and it can show up beside someone similar to the creator, mod, admin, etc. bubbles