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Who foots the bill for servers? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by Vupperware to c/asklemmy

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One concern I have with moving to Lemmy is the server upkeep costs. I realize that there is a donation option available to aid in server upkeep,

But what happens if this funding falls short?

I am not entirely confident in my assumptions, but I can say with relative certainty that despite being federated, the server’s bill has to be paid by someone. Lemmy is not a P2P service lol.

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[–] nihilist_hippie 8 points 2 years ago

It's a genuine concern. Hopefully enough people will chip in to keep it running. I just signed up for the Patreon today.

[–] BobbyBandwidth 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you’re concerned about that, just run your own instance and subscribe to whatever other instances you’d like

[–] MothBookkeeper 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wouldn't all the content go down if those other instances did?

[–] BobbyBandwidth 2 points 2 years ago

The content would go down, but you’d still have your account. I think it would be fairly rare that a big instance goes down. The ecosystem should become large enough that the risk is mitigated.