We ask u/spez for the money ...
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I run a website that I pay for out of pocket. It's not super expensive and it's a hobby of mine, so I don't really mind.
The infrastructure I pay for wouldn't be able to handle thousands of users simultaneously, but it could easily handle a few dozen or a couple hundred people simultaneously.
I'm considering setting up a kbin/lemmy instance specifically for my niche interest (fencing). Across the English speaking internet, there isn't that large a regular online community, and I think the infrastructure would be affordable for one person out-of-pocket, as a hobby - maybe with a few donations once a year.
If every small community had someone doing something like this, it would basically self-solve
Given that lemmy is an OSS project and decentralized, it draws a lot of people with knowledge and resources. You could easily host your own instance for your friends, to have them connect to other instances. And i think there are enough people in these communities that have some left over server resources to host their own instances.
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Reddit used to have something similar to health bar showing how much "gold" was bought to support the website. but later on out of greed they started using it as a paywall.
We can have a health bar that doesnt paywall ANY features and very transparently displays funds raised\used for a server. It can be used to display how much funds its being supported, how much server costs are, salaries for open source maintainers, mods, etc.
This is a great idea.
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There already is a question similar to this. You can find lots of ideas there :)
I know that it is not a popular topic in 2023 but a blockchain currency that allows users to 'award' posts/comments (similar to tipping in /r/dogecoin days) could provide instance owners with a source of income by taking a small portion of tips on their server.
Such a system would likely scale alongside user activity (read server load) and would encourage higher quality content. Would love to hear peoples thoughts on this.
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IMO it sounds like that some AI corporation should host their own instance(s). They only pay for server and maintenance costs, while community does the rest and they have their data.
Would be best of both worlds, isn't it? Once they become greedy, we are f*cked again, just like Reddit did...
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