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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?

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Ruud who runs lemmy.world and mastodon.world publishes financial information on his blog: https://blog.mastodon.world/april-and-may-2023-financial-update

[–] clif@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Wow, such transparency... that's awesome. I wonder (hope) if there will be a massive spike in donations in June.

/me sets alarm to remind me to donate after work since I keep thinking about it while I'm away.

[–] LilLetDown@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Ya, no kidding. This piqued my interest, but I did not click expecting to see an actual cost basis! I have been looking at potentially setting up my own node, but at the same time... Perhaps contributing here, financially as well, could be the best option.

Still fun to play around with my own stuff though :) Thanks guys!

[–] OptimusPrime@lemmy.moonling.nl 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He is a Dutchie, that must be why.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Iirc, Isn't the lemmy.world vps around €200 PM?

Thanks for the instance and good work btw, I know it's not easy running this stuff.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah 180, for now it's overkill but I prefer that over scaling up every day.

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