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Who pays for the infrastructure for hosting communities? (self.asklemmy)

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

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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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[–] Candelestine 5 points 1 year ago

Every Fediverse server is hosted by someone, somewhere. They can choose to handle the costs for that in any way that they wish. Some collect Patreon and paypal donations, some just eat it. Some probably plan on attempting to monetize eventually and have a roughly budgeted amount they are willing to lose first. Some will be funded and owned by Zuckerberg. Some will be run as nonprofits with a trust of some sort. Some will ... etc etc. Everything under the sun basically. There is no "one way" things will work, due to the federated nature. Things will always work in many, many different ways.