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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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The people who develop lemmy get paid to do so, as stated by iirc Dessalines themselves.
I would put donating to those running instances at the highest priority, because without servers, we have nothing.
That grant is coming to an end, if it hasn't already.
They get paid from an NLnet grant, but it's only for specific features (not bug fixing) and it's not a living wage
It's more than €10 unless it's on a raspberry pi. Lemmy.world is over €100
from just the memory numbers last time i saw server graphs, it's gotta be at least an order of magnitude more than that.
Iirc it was €180 about for the EPYC host. That was months ago but it had headroom.
How to prevent it from becoming a Wikipedia situation then with server owners begging for money constantly?
Accept the instance owners will be forced to turn to shittier methods of income, like ads.
Spreading the load over many small instances will likely prevent this. It can be quite cheap to host lemmy well, but everything is expensive when you scale up 1000x