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  • Dear Faye@halubilo.social
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    1 year ago

    I definitely agree with this, but damn, the upkeep for having an instance of your own can be a strain on your server, though. We have a small instance of ours in order to subscribe to other instances (not just lemmy.world) and in a span of 4 weeks, the database got up to 6 gigs already… can’t imagine how much it would cost to have more than 15 users. Donations would have to be a default setup if people want a particular instance to keep running and not have it become like Reddit, and I understand better now why some have to pass a particular screening first.

    • megane-kun
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      1 year ago

      in a span of 4 weeks, the database got up to 6 gigs already

      Exponential growth is scary! I sure hope instance admins, as well as Lemmy devs (and contributors, and others such as those who actively look for problems in the code), are already working on such problems. In the meanwhile, yeah, the amount of goodwill is just overwhelming as well, which I hope translates to more donations instance admins and Lemmy devs (and contributors).

      • Dear Faye@halubilo.social
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        1 year ago

        Yes, there are actually a lot of developers helping with Lemmy! We have a Philippine admin from here who is helping out with Lemmy as well and conversing with the other helpers (hello, you know who you are!). It’s actually kind of exciting because there are so many people wanting to help out and make this a better place, and all the code is out there for people to see, understand, and improve on.