Mersampa
I joined when you had under 1000 users total, now there are 1.3k online at this very moment. I can imagine it's quite a strain!
It was pretty surprising to read their first update that had it at $12 a month! Though my server is running on a $2 a month VPS (currently) and doing pretty well so when you don't have too many users it doesn't cost an awful lot to run (so long as your technical people are donating their time!)
There's a financials post here: https://beehaw.org/post/416496
And near the bottom of this page you can see the donations made, the money actually spent, and their current balance: https://opencollective.com/beehaw
I wish I'd known about Beehaw earlier, though before this influx it seems there wasn't a huge amount of content as the community was pretty small.
I have known about Lemmy for some time, but the more popular instances were basically filled with people who had been kicked off reddit for their views. It was not a welcoming place, so until now I hadn't felt comfortable hanging around.
Are they not? The donation page says "This Collective's Fiscal Host is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your contribution will be tax-deductible in the US, to the extent allowed by the law."
I presumed this was based on the umbrella you were accepted under to be on opencollective?
I... can't see anywhere where they are complaining? This was just a post about how much the server cost to run. They updated it over time with new numbers as they beefed up the server capacity. But the post basically says "Here's how much it costs to run, and we have plenty of money". I don't see the complaining?
Represent! Love being a part of history. I'll tell my kids about this some day.
Somehow "the first rule of reddit" got forgotten, and suddenly everyone knew about it. That's about when it went downhill.
Oh I should have said, the oldest is 6. They have no idea what the song is, but they want me to play it for them... they don't know what tiktok is.
Reading and responding to people and posts is contributing, and I would argue more important than starting new posts.
Yes! It's who you ask when you aren't sure what the idea, concept, or term is. Once you are armed with that information, use a proper search engine.