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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I’m not a very tech savvy person, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. But does that mean that each instance of Lemmy is personally paid for by whoever owns it? How can that be sustainable?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Yes

    I'm not an instance owner for Lemmy but a lot of us enjoy hosting different services at home on old/recycled hardware as a hobby or a means to escape big tech.

    I personally run a few things like Plex (media), PiHole (adblock), and NextCloud ("cloud" storage).

    It's sustainable as the Fediverse is a decentralized platform, meaning that, if necessary, we can rebuild accounts on a different instance if something happens to our existing one.

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