• Brkdncr@kbin.social
    78·
    8 months ago

    $. Almost every reason for shutting off boils down to lack of financial support to keep it running.

      • Turun@feddit.deEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        It really depends. It would not surprise me if lemmy.world needs to buy a terabyte of storage every month just to have enough space for all image uploads. That’s possible when you can just use a single hard drive and put it in a server at home, but if you use hosting and/or want redundancy that can add up quickly.

        • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          We’re not talking about the ones where every person decided to sign up to though.