Yes, currently the monthly donations exceed our hosting costs!

Or https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

There’s hundreds of lemmy instances. Thousands of fediverse ones

My setup is quite complex and I have 1000+ MAU so we’re not a small instance anymore. That said we use hetzner, ovh, and mailgun. Our hosting hosts are more than 100 per month but I could probably be running a bit cheaper if I wanted, but this way we have easy growing space.

About 5-20 eur/month should be enough for most instance admins, depending on their provider.

It gives me confidence. I know that now that I host my own lemmy, I cannot be randomly banned because I triggered some automatic spam filter with my scripts (happened in reddit), or banned because I talked back to the wrong mod. I know that our internationally distributed nature makes it harder to control top-down, so takeovers like Musk-Xitter are not possible. We can still be affected by disinfo campaigns and troll farms, and we unfortunately have weakened defenses against that, but I’m confident that a lot of smart admins and tooling providers will bunch together to figure out the countermeasures that will work.

VC-backed = Ignored.

Incidentally, this is why Mastodon relays exist.

blaze “lemmy-linked” to my blog, probably because the UI autofill suggested it and they didn’t double check

We already have that on our instance. It’s a tiny step to also have discourse-style achievements, but I really need some ui devs to help me actually display the damn things natively 😅