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Hi there, fresh fledditor learning the ropes around here.

I have noticed there are a couple of communities that haven't been created yet that I was a regular in on reddit. I've been thinking about starting new ones here, but don't really understand who pays for the overhead if I create a new community.

Since this isn't a centralized website like reddit, what infrastructure does a new community depend on and who pays for it?

Thanks yall.

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[โ€“] Willer 2 points 2 years ago

Everything depends on ActivityPub. A protocol to communicate posts and comments across servers. Instances are synonymous with servers and whoever decides to host an instance has to pay for it. It seems that it is fairly low resource demand tho so you could propably host this on a Pi.