Nope, believe it or not it is dirt cheap to run one of these.
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Brkdncr@kbin.social 1 year ago
$. Almost every reason for shutting off boils down to lack of financial support to keep it running.
willya@lemmyf.uk 1 year ago
Turun@feddit.de 1 year ago
It really depends. It would not surprise me if lemmy.world needs to buy a terabyte of storage every month just to have enough space for all image uploads. That’s possible when you can just use a single hard drive and put it in a server at home, but if you use hosting and/or want redundancy that can add up quickly.
willya@lemmyf.uk 1 year ago
We’re not talking about the ones where every person decided to sign up to though.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
Nope. It’s administration and moderation.
Brkdncr@kbin.social 1 year ago
Pay for that?