I’m not seeing any ads, and these servers certainly have a cost… So is this place entirely donation based, or what?

  • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li
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    1 year ago

    That’s the best part, it doesn’t!

    You’re spot on, donations, or just people (like me) doing it out of the goodness of their heart for various reasons (free speech, desire for control/power, curiosity, boredom, etc).

    My server is mostly intended for me, but anyone who wants an account is welcome. My reasons are that I already run stuff on servers I have so cost is minimal vs what I would be doing anyway, I like having control over things I run (password manager, git server, etc), and based on some of the federation drama I saw in Mastodon (and has already happened here with beehaw) it’s a good idea to run your own server.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been thinking of hosting my own instance for myself, but I was wondering if you’d noticed any oddities! I’ve heard of some bugs that occur when interacting cross-instance. Also stuff about content being out of sync, which I notice currently with lemmy.ml from my current instance (lemmy.world).