sell checkmarks like Tumbler.
for x$ a month get a checkmark next to your name on posts. in whatever colours you pay for. buy checkmarks for others.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I think the price is spread out across multiple generous people that generously host instances. I think it really depends on how much members there are. From what I heard my instance is 25 $ a month. Another instance I was in on Mastodon cost a few hundreds bucks to run. This is why it is good to help out your fellow admins. On the other hand, lemmy and other fediverse software are open source, so they don't really have to pay for developpers. Also the scope of what lemmy or Mastodon do is considerably smaller that Facebook, Twitter and the likes. Facebook isn't just a social media, it's a spying engine and an ad recommendation platform, Lemmy and mastodon are just social medias, so of course it costs less to do.
Yup. On Facebook/Twitter the product isn't the content, its a whole shitload of agregated personal data of the users and advertisements that use said data to target the users, so its only natural that these companies would be spending ludicrous amounts of money finding new ways to collect and parse that data.
By not asking the same question every single day.
edit: misposted comment - see bizarre explanation below (and it's not just me)
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I'd love hosting a chunk on my anyways online Linux box (and if it was easy I could put up another junk box or two (like i3-i5 8GB 256GB-512GB/1-4TB) if it fits on a 1Gb ethernet line, but I admit I don't have the time (/energy) for all the stuff around (I'd do backups) especially if the hardware breaks or there are troll infestations etc.
Before the whole world migrates to Lemmy, maybe we could hold on by teaming up in some way.
Maybe my shard should be about doing just that, and hopefully people wanting to set up 'lemmys' could gather and share experiences and help.
Thoughts?
I've thought about contributing to lemmy because a built in decentralized hosting/backup solution would be ideal. Add in some heavy sandboxing and the more advanced users could donate their hardware usage to their favourite instance (ideally with ease) - then the load could even be broken up per instance, and it'd pretty much gaurentee the info will never be lost to time because anyone can host a backup
Really nice merch, with small logos on. Think how the LTT stealth stuff is.
I know some people love merch but I've never really seen the appeal. If I want to support something I like I would rather purchase their media (artist) or donate directly if they have that option.
I do agree though if there is merch, I would vote for smaller logos.
Nature always finds a way. Just like with most open source apps, the community comes together to code. I think we'll see a similar thing here. There is a ton of capacity out there being under utilized. Only a matter of time, but I think there's definitely improvements needed on the onboarding of new users, and fast.
Since it's distributed, the cost doesn't even compare to a centralized instance. It's really hard to say how much it would cost to host everyone across the fediverse, but because of decentralization, it'll be a hell of a lot easier to achieve.
You can always have paid-access Lemmy servers
Given that lemmy is an OSS project and decentralized, it draws a lot of people with knowledge and resources. You could easily host your own instance for your friends, to have them connect to other instances. And i think there are enough people in these communities that have some left over server resources to host their own instances.
I got an old server from work sitting around at home doing nothing. Seriously thinking about hosting my own instance on it