Please, tell me how “paying for hardware costs is enough”…

  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    have had long discussions with admins from other instances who keep begging for more donations every month

    Are those Lemmy instances, or other software like Mastodon?

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      Mastodon because it is the largest number of instances and users, but the principle is the same. It hasn’t happened with Lemmy yet because this subset of the Fediverse is ridiculously small compared to Mastodon/Pixelfed

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          You of all people here should know that the cost of running the service is not the real issue. Even if Mastodon takes 3x as much hardware to run as Lemmy, the cost of hardware is still pennies per user.

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            You are the one who brought the size of the platform as a reason for costs not being an issue here compared to Mastodon, so I assumed you meant that having more users would mean more costs for the admins?

            Or do you mean that with more instances, there is a higher chance of some admin having issues covering the costs?