I was trying to work out how much to donate to Kbin to keep the lights on. I read somewhere it costs something like $1/month per user?
Can we assume that 1/5 of users will be donating on a monthly basis?
So most people will be donating something like $5/month to cover the freeloaders and those that genuinely can't afford it?
Does that seem about right?
I was surprised to see that only 190 out of ~5k users have so far donated:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
That maths doesn't work does it?
I hope there's a recurring payment option soon like Open Collective otherwise I'll probably forget to donate next month.
I've got no issue kicking Ernest a fiver (and in fact I did), but part of the issue is, we shouldn't be advocating for kbin.social or any of their other instances becoming the "Big Kahuna" That defeats half the purpose of being a federated protocol in the first place. Get a VPS of your own, spin up an instance, invite your friends and family, and spread the load. If you poke around, you can get a suitable VPS that can support a small number of users quite inexpensively.
I don't have mine up and running yet, but it's in the works, as soon as I muddle through how.
Woah, so I can host my own instance on my own server? I've been kinda looking for an excuse to get a Linux web server going...
Correct. That's sort of the whole idea behind "The Fediverse" Lots of smaller instances of a thing talking to each other, instead of one big monolithic thing.
It's pretty intriguing. I had no idea any of this stuff was even going on prior to the blackout.