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A question,
How when and where does the money come from to keep lemmy running?
Since nothing is free in life who pays for lemmy?
Lemmy is much cheaper to run than mastodon. Small instances have negligible financial costs
I pay the server admins for feddit.uk (the instance this community is hosted on) to help with hosting costs because I think they provide a valuable service. Currently I am not paying towards Lemmy (I do pay towards Mastodon development however) but I may start doing that in the future.
My £5 a month to Feddit.uk and £1 a month to Mastodon isn’t much but it’s orders of magnitude more than Reddit and Twitter would have earned from my (adblock using) eyeballs before so hopefully a few of us paying a few pounds/euros/dollars directly is enough to support the services.
Running a lemmy server is cheap enough, so they source most of their money from donations. The lemmy software is also powered by donations.
The server admins pay for it. Or people donate to the instance to keep it running
And on that note, consider donating to the instance and/or the Lemmy devs (and any other open-source project you find useful). I also need to make a round of donations soon!
There are also ways to donate to the core developers who write most of the Lemmy software running on each server.
https://join-lemmy.org/donate
Volunteers. Think about it like volunteering for your local community. Like a football coach or something.
Divide by zero (the instance I'm on) takes donations. People who donate get a nifty flair in the governance threads, but you don't have to donate to vote on issues the server faces. (We also allow non-members to vote, though since they're not as impacted by decisions made for the instance, their votes are given lower weights.)
Varies between instances. sh.itjust.works, for example, is financed via donations.
https://feddit.org/post/2600584