Curious how lemmy servers are paid for. Is it donation?

  • Nyanix@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Yup, paid for by donations 😊 server requirements aren’t super high since it’s primarily functioning as link aggregation and doesn’t have to host a lot per server.

      • kratoz29@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Playing the devil’s advocate here… They also (badly) host videos so maybe that’s something… But for that pricing, they are just greedy fucks.

        • linearchaos@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          The majority of their expenditures are salary and rent. They’ve hired on a shit ton of investors ‘friends’ as upper MGMT and pay them loads to do shit work.

          The API price is calculated by what they expect to pull in from ad revenue, which is insanely overinflated to make the bottom line look good for IPO.

          Give 'em a couple months, maybe a quarter. When ad-rev is crap, they’ll lay off another load and send spez packing.