Do you anticipate your instance eventually growing to the point where you would have to outsource your hosting and start taking donations to cover the cost?
I currently dont have open registration without me confirming every entry application so uncontrolled growth isn't really possible. Ill probably close registration as soon as there are too many people for me to host the instance in my basement. I would probably set up a donation page if I paid more than like 30 bucks a month for hosting.
And do you believe donations would be enough to pay off the costs, given the voluntary and variable nature of donations?
Donations seem to work fine on big instances like lemmy.world . Not sure about smaller ones tho
What is your opinion of using ads to cover the cost of hosting?
I hate ads and everything that tries to shove them down my throat. Most people on lemmy are somewhat tech savy and are probably already using an adblock. So ill make the experience a lot worse for a small amount of people without adblock and wouldnt be getting much money.
Admin of a tiny instance with some somewhat active communities here. Monetary cost is almost zero because my lemmy instance runs on my own hardware. It uses around 250mb of ram and 50gb of storage which is pretty much nothing. Im currently not looking for any sort of donation
I currently dont have open registration without me confirming every entry application so uncontrolled growth isn't really possible. Ill probably close registration as soon as there are too many people for me to host the instance in my basement. I would probably set up a donation page if I paid more than like 30 bucks a month for hosting.
Donations seem to work fine on big instances like lemmy.world . Not sure about smaller ones tho
I hate ads and everything that tries to shove them down my throat. Most people on lemmy are somewhat tech savy and are probably already using an adblock. So ill make the experience a lot worse for a small amount of people without adblock and wouldnt be getting much money.