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How do server upkeep costs look like for fediverse stuff? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think I can help with that!

Basically it’s donations and own investments 👌🏻♥️ I run quite a lot of free services, mstdn.social and Masto.ai are the biggest I think but most of it gets covered by donations via various channels.

The rule is: people may only donate when they can miss it, we don’t wanna cause any problems with people!

Just a little fun thing: if every local user would donate 1 cent each month we would get more in donations than our total costs are😅

Ofc this doesn’t happen but some people can donate and other can’t!

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

I'm on mastodon.art and donate $1/m, same story. It's only a handful of people that donate (hundreds, but still - much smaller than the thousands of users) and we cover the bill.

Though, this is also why i'm experimenting with custom Fediverse instance software that prioritizes low cost operation. I think Fedi would be better off if it wasn't a huge lift to figure out hosting. There's enough challenges in hosting instances, it would be nice to reduce as many as possible.

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