I know anyone can spin up an instance. So who is hosting lemmy.world, and how much are they paying for hosting? If this is going to replace r-word someday, it will need a lot of resources and money to keep it running.
I know anyone can spin up an instance. So who is hosting lemmy.world, and how much are they paying for hosting? If this is going to replace r-word someday, it will need a lot of resources and money to keep it running.
If you build it, they will come,
I feel in this case we also have some of the opposite: they are coming, you will build it.
For sometime like Lemmy, the more people that are active, the more people need to donate to keep up with operation costs and to also make it worth while to the host.
Most user supported services thrive, if there is interest.