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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?
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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Since Lemmy instance are not backed by commercial interest, but rather by nice volunteers and donors that have money and time to spare, they will be heavily affected by economic downturns (we still can see commercial interests still affect users negatively tho with reddit). Here are my thoughts on the matter:
That is why you should always back up your comments on your personal device, would be nice if lemmy had an automated way of doing this (I should look into this more)
The thing you’re overlooking is that for a lot of the people hosting small instances, this is a hobby.
Speaking for myself, the cost of a domain is basically nothing, and adding Lemmy to my hosting setup was zero - I already have more ram, cpu, and disk space than I’d ever need for this instance.
Financial incentives are not the only thing people care about, and until relatively recently weren’t the general default purpose of online social spaces.
Ok, sure. But what if your instance became popular and started costing you hundreds per month? Or in a couple years and you lose interest, do you keep paying for it? What happens to all of the content that users created on your instance?
Well, I'm very explicitly not running it with the intent of it getting larger than maybe a couple dozen people I know who are interested. I'm not really interested in content moderation at any scale, let alone with random people I don't know from the internet. (My most recent job was dealing with content & abuse for a large cloud provider, and I have zero interest in picking up shitpost babysitting if it's avoidable.)
I'm otherwise going with the Mastodon Server Covenant as the basic guidelines: I've got a trusted friend I'm going to add as a 2nd admin, doing backups nightly, and at least a 90 day notice if/when I decide to stop hosting this.
I'd happily transfer the domain & data to anyone who wants to continue to admin it, or ask the community members what they want done.
I'll admit that makes WAY less sense if I wanted to run an instance with thousands of users, but that's very much not the goal.
Domain names are cheap, like $25/year.