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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for asking this. This is something I've been serious about for awhile. Turns out while it's expensive in the grand scheme of giant website it's not that expensive money wise. Though it is very time expensive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IDK, I thought I saw they said it cost $300-400 a month to host, for a personal expense that's pretty significant for most folks (plus the time, though it seems to be a labor of love).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh that's for sure a big expense for most people myself included but if you go to the open collective link above the estimated budget for lemmy.world this year is only 16k ish. and thats to host one of if not the biggest instance right now. if every user donated a dollar the instance could run possibly for years.