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Should I donate to my instance or the project itself?
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I think it could be split 25% lemmy, 75% your instance.
Beacuse lemmy could be funded by all users of all instances, but your instance would be only by its users... Although someone could argue it'd be also in the best interest of other instances to fund any instances with interesting communities.
In the end is up to you what's more important.
Maybe one month to one and the next to another?
the thing people don't realize is that prior to reddit/twitter/et al there were thousands of forums, chats and groups operated for free by thier admins. Not that we should never consider helping these instances and I do understand the concern of economics here. It would however be good to understand the economics of these systems is entirely different from that of a for-profit social site. Personally, considering the conflict in goals of a for-profit vs non-profit commons, I will likely be defederating any sever operating for-profit, simply paying the bills on the other hand.
Id suggest looking to the older models, keep instances small, use automation on your instance to create amazing curated feeds matched to the interests of your users. The cost scaling issues usually only begin to kick in past a certain size, cloud hosting is surprisingly cheap and its also a way for people wanting to learn and put exp on the resume easily (always been this way).