Hi there, fresh fledditor learning the ropes around here.

I have noticed there are a couple of communities that haven’t been created yet that I was a regular in on reddit. I’ve been thinking about starting new ones here, but don’t really understand who pays for the overhead if I create a new community.

Since this isn’t a centralized website like reddit, what infrastructure does a new community depend on and who pays for it?

Thanks yall.

  • EDRBd97kWbT2KzK
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    1 year ago

    Short answer: it should be us, the community. In practice it’s the instance owner and some of the biggest instances already have crowd funding in place we can participate in.

    Is it working at a large scale? Maybe not, we will see.

    Is it more sustainable than a company funded by VCs trying to make money of ads that everybody wants to block? Yeah definitely.