I’m fairly new and don’t 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?

Especially with the influx of new users. Hardware upgrades are needed.

  • iByteABit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If they want to crate a Lemmy instance so badly, why don’t they? It’s open source, everyone can host an instance if they want to.

    The only thing I can imagine is that they’re restricted from monetizing it due to some rule of the license