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Hi. I'm new to Lemmy. Here's what I'm wondering. How Lemmy servers are paid. If the person who opens the server no longer wants to pay this fee, the server has to shut down. How is this issue resolved?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Single-user basement troll servers are the way forward in the fediverse.

Use ZeroTier or Tailscale tunneling if you're hosting from your home network (fuck Cloudflare, all my homies hate Cloudflare). You can also rent a cloud server, put a VPN on it and tunnel all of the traffic to your homeserver without exposing the homeserver itself to the internet. Or just put the instance on the cloud server itself.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

(fuck Cloudflare, all my homies hate Cloudflare)

I might be out of the loop, why?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mostly centralization and monopoly concerns, considering that 80% of websites use Cloudflare. The data security isn't great (Cloudflare can obviously access all traffic unencrypted) but the tunnels are free. I won't yell at people for using Cloudflare, especially for the DDOS protection which is difficult for a smaller company to provide, but it's always treated like everyone has to use it or else their website will explode, which gets annoying.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also checking in

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Noone said it's gonna be easy. Besides, if you don't understand that stuff you really shouldn't be running your server anyways

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I absolutely agree. I want someone who understands this to do it and we can support it financially.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Like others I'm wondering why not cloudflare?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What's a good alternative? I have a few domains through Cloudflare that I have no issue transferring elsewhere.