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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am already hosting the AI Horde so I'm good with infrastructure. And since lemmy provided an ansible playbook which is my expertise, I thought it would be easy. And it was, even with my using my own loadbalancer solution instead of nginx.

I already had a server I wasn't using much for the AI Horde so I repurposed it. The DB physical I have is really good so I just made it share the DB for lemmy as well.

I pay for it from the same budget which runs on donations. I put a Kofi link on the sidebar and already covered so much of the costs that I sent some of the overflow to lemmy development

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I sent some of the overflow to lemmy development

I was hoping for something like that the other day. Makes me happy to see it happening! Thank you :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Word to the wise, Lemmy devs prefer liberapay over patreon and opencollective.

https://liberapay.com/Lemmy/donate

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do they explain why?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Iirc, liberapay take a 0% cut.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like that open collective has public auditing though, which I think is important for FOSS projects.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You may well be correct, I simply read a comment that said they prefer Liberapay.