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The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent (mstdn.social)

submitted 2 years ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Please, tell me how "paying for hardware costs is enough"...

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Are yall not sponsoring this project on patreon or otherwise?

I pitch in something like 1-2 bucks to desalines and a few bucks to .world every month.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 20 points 2 years ago

You are the exception, and you will find out that even the most prolific participants here claiming that $5 per year is enough to cover the hardware costs, so he doesn't see any reason to give more than that.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

If you see this go to the patreon rn and sign up for like, $1 a month.

[-] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

I didn't realize there was patrons for lemmy instances

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Shit aint free.

I mean when we were over at (the bad place), people were literally donating monthly to pay for server costs. (the bad place) in the early days was basically one giant instance.

except it didnt have a working video player. for-fucking-ever.

so I donate a bit to my mortal enemy @desalines and a bit to lemmy.world to keep the project going. Maybe 5 bucks a month between the two?