I’m pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?
I think I can help with that!
Basically it’s donations and own investments 👌🏻♥️ I run quite a lot of free services, mstdn.social and Masto.ai are the biggest I think but most of it gets covered by donations via various channels.
The rule is: people may only donate when they can miss it, we don’t wanna cause any problems with people!
Just a little fun thing: if every local user would donate 1 cent each month we would get more in donations than our total costs are😅
Ofc this doesn’t happen but some people can donate and other can’t!
And because admins like you rock. If an admin is really cool, they can donate even their house, but if an admin is not cool, well… look at spez.