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Who will pay for lemmy? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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First post, honest question.

Who will pay for lemmy? There were a few sites that started sometime back because they were fed up with something about reddit but eventually they all crashed because they had no funds. How will lemmy be different?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In the case of this instance (lemmy.fmhy.ml) it appears to be self funded by the admins

Q: Can I donate?

A: We appreciate that people want to support us, but we never have and never will accept donations. We maintain this project because its fun and we want to help others, not make money.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/comments/xrxen7/faq_support_thread/

However currently for others instances donations seem to be the primary method of funding (beehaw has a nice cost breakdown)

Edit FMHY link to beehaw post:

https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/509214

Beehaw direct link to post

https://beehaw.org/post/920683

https://beehaw.org/post/428209

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"self funded" is a bit wrong since the lemmy server is literally free, but yes, everything we host is self funded. we will never ever EVER make freemediaheckyeah a paid service.