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So how does lemmy make money? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by _danny@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm not seeing any ads, and these servers certainly have a cost.... So is this place entirely donation based, or what?

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[–] brandon@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, what are you doing for hosting? I'm interested in hosting an instance, but I'm not sure what kind of hardware to throw at it.

[–] tekeous@apollo.town 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m using a Hetzner cloud box running Ubuntu

[–] monomon@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's really cheap! I should check it out now.

[–] MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/4fzCUEpFnDg

[–] brandon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Nice, thank you!