hi all!

so, I guess all the instances and the development itself are in need of some money to be run.

do all the instances need to survive on their own?

I’m not sure how it works in the background, but instances with a small community would still need to be able to mirror all the threads from other instances - if its community requests it
did I get this wrong?

I’m currently supporting the development through Patreon, but I guess sometime in the future l, it would be wise to split this with server costs for the instances.

or do I miss something?

thanks!

  • archroy@lemmy.ml
    19·
    1 year ago

    If you can’t donate then it’s really helpful to just post/comment regularly. I think the main thing Lemmy needs at this point is just more content.

    • naeap@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      three idea was more, how the single instances can finance themselves. network traffic and storage need to be paid somehow.

      I’m not sure how the federated system works exactly and how much a small instance would need to mirror or pipe through, when the users subscribe to large communities on another instance.

      so I was wondering, how instances with a small user base can keep up financially - bigger ones can probably live of donations. If a small instance doesn’t need much space or traffic, because subscriptions on remote instances are directly handled on the remote instance, than this is probably no problem.

      I’m thinking of setting up my own small server and am not sure what exactly to expect…

      • mrmanager@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 year ago

        For me, I wanted an instance that is my own. So I set it up and I pay maybe 10 dollars per month for it. It’s not going to break my bank even if lots of users decide to join it. :)

        • naeap@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          thanks for the input!

          I just haven’t figured out, what happens if users on my small instance would join larger communities in other instances. does the small instance needs to mirror or route the traffic to the other instance, or is this only done through links and on the small instance is really only the stuff local users generated?