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The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent (mstdn.social)
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Please, tell me how "paying for hardware costs is enough"...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For lemmy.world / mastodon.world including some of the smaller instances we host, it's like 0,06 euro per active user per month. If every active user would pay 2 Euro per year that would be enough to cover hosting costs. If every active user would pay 1 euro per month, I could quit my dayjob and focus on the Fediverse fulltime.

(Sidenote: Stux and I created the non-profit Fedihosting Foundation which owns lemmy.world .. but finances are still separate for his and my instances)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Thank you for providing data for LW, and thank you for your sysadmin work!

While we are talking, there have been occurrences of "power tripping" by some LW mods (e.g. https://lemmy.world/post/23229045/14411568?sort=New) , is there any mechanism to escalate this to you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sending e-mail to info at lemmy dot world would be the best option. The team will pick that up.

(By the way: 2 EUR per year would be enough if every active user would donate that but they don't)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks, I might send an email later.

By the way: 2 EUR per year would be enough if every active user would donate that but they don’t

Indeed. Have you thought about promoting this in an announcement post?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We have done before, but don't do that often, so we don't bother users too much. But we might do again soon, and maybe do a monthly post on the mastodons/sharkeys etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sounds good. db0 started to add flairs, including one for donators, maybe that's something you can consider as well:

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Phrased another way: "I don't think you are allowed to make a living out of the work you do here, so thank you for accepting all this for free".