I’m not seeing any ads, and these servers certainly have a cost… So is this place entirely donation based, or what?

  • webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I am already running a server for media streaming, nextcloud and minecraft. For sure i have room to add a small lemmy instance soon, not everything needs to make money or even be electricity even. But for larger instances though they must be gething some donations.

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      1 year ago

      Everything needs to generate some sort of value - I imagine a lemmy instance would generate value for you in the form of learning, or maybe the sense of accomplishment from maintaining a community. That differs from how centralised social media generates value in the form of data or money which is usually at odds with the userbase.