I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!

  • gk99
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    381 year ago

    The people who develop lemmy get paid to do so, as stated by iirc Dessalines themselves.

    I would put donating to those running instances at the highest priority, because without servers, we have nothing.

    • Leraje
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      201 year ago

      That grant is coming to an end, if it hasn’t already.

    • @MBM
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      61 year ago

      They get paid from an NLnet grant, but it’s only for specific features (not bug fixing) and it’s not a living wage

      • LUHG
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        41 year ago

        It’s more than €10 unless it’s on a raspberry pi. Lemmy.world is over €100

        • @notatoad@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          Lemmy.world is over €100

          from just the memory numbers last time i saw server graphs, it’s gotta be at least an order of magnitude more than that.

          • LUHG
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            11 year ago

            Iirc it was €180 about for the EPYC host. That was months ago but it had headroom.

        • @cole@lemdro.id
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          11 year ago

          Spreading the load over many small instances will likely prevent this. It can be quite cheap to host lemmy well, but everything is expensive when you scale up 1000x