I’m not seeing any ads, and these servers certainly have a cost… So is this place entirely donation based, or what?

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
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    A mix of donations for the larger instances, and some self-hosting for smaller instances. E.g., lemmy.world has a couple of links for Donations in the sidebar. Kbin got some seed money from NLnet.

    The whole thing is federated, so this costs are distributed, and I’d imagine largely pro bono.

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      I think lemmy.ml was getting money from NLnet by completing Milestones, but now that they’re scrambling to handle bugs and doing Q&A constantly I think they’re losing out on that funding. At least that’s what Dessalines reported, I believe