Reddit migrator here (shocking, I know)
Just wondering because I found out about all this yesterday and just realized the ammount of independent servers, but no sign of any ads or sponsors. So… is it all based on donations?
Also don’t just lurk, if you know you should answer because lemmy only counts users who posted or commented as active users.
Honestly, I share your concerns. I’m only recommending it for very expensive instances that aren’t receiving enough funding, as an alternative to directly soliciting funds. The beauty of the Fediverse is that if an instance admin tried doing something like punishing the “poor and badgeless,” we could all just fuck off. It would alleviate their financial burden, to boot 😃
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These are fantastic ideas. I stand gladly corrected!
To add to this, let donators “allocate” their donation, whether it’s further feature dev, more moderation, better server performance.
Obviously money can be used where the host wants, but could give some direction to what the server needs