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First of all,welcome to Lemmy!

Here are a few pointers to help you settle in

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[โ€“] yaksuu@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago (9 children)

A question,

How when and where does the money come from to keep lemmy running?

Since nothing is free in life who pays for lemmy?

[โ€“] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The server admins pay for it. Or people donate to the instance to keep it running

[โ€“] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

And on that note, consider donating to the instance and/or the Lemmy devs (and any other open-source project you find useful). I also need to make a round of donations soon!

[โ€“] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Divide by zero (the instance I'm on) takes donations. People who donate get a nifty flair in the governance threads, but you don't have to donate to vote on issues the server faces. (We also allow non-members to vote, though since they're not as impacted by decisions made for the instance, their votes are given lower weights.)

[โ€“] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 month ago

Volunteers. Think about it like volunteering for your local community. Like a football coach or something.

[โ€“] comfy@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

There are also ways to donate to the core developers who write most of the Lemmy software running on each server.

https://join-lemmy.org/donate

[โ€“] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago

Lemmy is much cheaper to run than mastodon. Small instances have negligible financial costs

[โ€“] PCurd@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

I pay the server admins for feddit.uk (the instance this community is hosted on) to help with hosting costs because I think they provide a valuable service. Currently I am not paying towards Lemmy (I do pay towards Mastodon development however) but I may start doing that in the future.

My ยฃ5 a month to Feddit.uk and ยฃ1 a month to Mastodon isnโ€™t much but itโ€™s orders of magnitude more than Reddit and Twitter would have earned from my (adblock using) eyeballs before so hopefully a few of us paying a few pounds/euros/dollars directly is enough to support the services.

[โ€“] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Running a lemmy server is cheap enough, so they source most of their money from donations. The lemmy software is also powered by donations.