this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023

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How does an instance of Lemmy, especially a larger one like lemmy.world pay for costs involved with running a Lemmy instance in a sustainable way? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by CascadianBeam@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[–] Boinketh@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

All that idiot had to do was monetize 3rd party apps by expanding the API to allow for the purchase of coins/awards in return for something like a 5% cut going to the devs. Too late now though, we're all in a vastly superior social media site.