For lemmy.world / mastodon.world including some of the smaller instances we host, it’s like 0,06 euro per active user per month. If every active user would pay 2 Euro per year that would be enough to cover hosting costs. If every active user would pay 1 euro per month, I could quit my dayjob and focus on the Fediverse fulltime.
(Sidenote: Stux and I created the non-profit Fedihosting Foundation which owns lemmy.world … but finances are still separate for his and my instances)
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Thank you for confirming that 5€ is enough to cover twice the hosting costs.
While we are talking, there have been occurrences of “power tripping” by some LW mods (e.g. lemmy.world/post/23229045/14411568?sort=New) , is there any mechanism to escalate this to you?
ruud@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sending e-mail to info at lemmy dot world would be the best option. The team will pick that up.
(By the way: 2 EUR per year would be enough if every active user would donate that but they don’t)
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Thanks, I might send an email later.
Indeed. Have you thought about promoting this in an announcement post?
ruud@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We have done before, but don’t do that often, so we don’t bother users too much. But we might do again soon, and maybe do a monthly post on the mastodons/sharkeys etc
rglullis@communick.news 5 weeks ago
Phrased another way: “I don’t think you are allowed to make a living out of the work you do here, so thank you for accepting all this for free”.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
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