I’m not seeing any ads, and these servers certainly have a cost… So is this place entirely donation based, or what?

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        The logical answer would be for more people to host their own instances in a similar ratio to present.

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          There’s a lot of work going into making instances easier to set up, too, so I think this will be possible.

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        True, but the amount of instances will probably scale too. You can have premium instances that cost a monthly fee, ones that solicit donations, maybe ones that run ads. But you’ll also always have the passion project instances being ran for a specific community out of the kindness of someone’s heart.