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YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The web is built on hot linking hypermedia. It is more fragile obviously, but it distributes the bandwidth and storage load. If nobody hotlinked, then small forum admins/Lemmy admins/etc. have considerably more cost to bear.