Sustainably? They don’t (mostly). Most are either pet projects, paid for out of pocket by the instance owner or run off donations. Neither are particularly sustainable long term, with rare exceptions like sdf.org.
The SDF runs just about every federated service you can think of, and has done so since the 1980s, run almost entirely off donations. Started as a dialup BBS (still active).
Thanks for asking this. This is something I’ve been serious about for awhile. Turns out while it’s expensive in the grand scheme of giant website it’s not that expensive money wise. Though it is very time expensive.
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This… is actually a pretty fucking good idea.
Make it $.01 and you might actually have a good idea on your hands. Big enough to matter given the thousands of users, small enough for the average user not to care.
The hard part is running a secure and private payment system on top of this.
Bitcoin lightning network has entered the chat
Feels like sarcasm, but I can’t tell.
Nope. I’m no expert, but lightning network fees get down to something like $0.0003 and transactions are instant, it would be great for this sort of thing.
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Where can I donate to lemmy.ml as well?
If you check out the opencollective link in lemmy worlds sidebar, theres a budget breakdown there. And how much they gain in donations.
I found it! Very informative. Thanks. I hope the donations keep flowing.
if you found it, can you share it?
I donate to them because i believe in the cause. Its $1 per month, so not like its breaking the bank. But if every user donated the same, they would have more than enough to cover the bills
Could you share a link? I’ve been trying to find a way to donate
See the heart button up top in the web client.
That’s to support the Lemmy software but I’m looking to donate to the Lemmy.world instance
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