The host of the instance owns/runs the server for any instance. There is no money to be made. The servers stay up because people donated or the instance owners paid for it.
Edit: the right way of saying it is… the instances, at least the bigger ones, are crowd-funded.
Around ~180 euros a month for the server they were renting to run this Lemmy instance. Anybody can host though and any member of a Lemmy can see content and interconnect with other instances.
I was looking into potentially hosting my own Lemmy for my friends and I because the cost would be more manageable.
I’d imagine if people started doing that it would decentralize the costs and the administrative overhead.
Off topic, who owns/runs the servers here and how does it make money? I’m new I’m curious.
The host of the instance owns/runs the server for any instance. There is no money to be made. The servers stay up because people donated or the instance owners paid for it.
Edit: the right way of saying it is… the instances, at least the bigger ones, are crowd-funded.
I’ve been doing some reading. I love things that go back to the idea of old internet mentality.
This is the way.
I asked about this.
Around ~180 euros a month for the server they were renting to run this Lemmy instance. Anybody can host though and any member of a Lemmy can see content and interconnect with other instances.
I was looking into potentially hosting my own Lemmy for my friends and I because the cost would be more manageable.
I’d imagine if people started doing that it would decentralize the costs and the administrative overhead.