I’m wondering how are all those different Lemmy instances financed? I know some rely on donations, but is that all and is that sustainable?

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    1 year ago

    I run lemmy.mindoki.com on a pc I built from spare parts (40€ dell plus for fun I got a hexa core for 50-ish and swapped out the celeron gold), only new “expensive” thing is the mechanical hard drive I guess but it’s really not needed. I had it laying around and there were already an SSD. I also had the website so no hidden cost there either.

    So it heats up my bedroom (but not enough, so the electricity cost is nil ATM).

    I don’t really have users though 😅

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      1 year ago

      Did you follow some sort of guide. I have some spare dell 730xd in my barn I wouldn’t mind tossing into my rack again. I just don’t have a clue on setting up an instance. I would also have to get this thing on its own vlan for obv reasons. Or a DMZ.

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        1 year ago

        No plan just moving ahead one error after another :-D

        I was fresh to dockers, nginx, setting up a certificate for Https… but eventually it happened.

        The community helped me a lot too.