We have done before, but don’t do that often, so we don’t bother users too much. But we might do again soon, and maybe do a monthly post on the mastodons/sharkeys etc

Sending e-mail to info at lemmy dot world would be the best option. The team will pick that up.

(By the way: 2 EUR per year would be enough if every active user would donate that but they don’t)

For lemmy.world / mastodon.world including some of the smaller instances we host, it’s like 0,06 euro per active user per month. If every active user would pay 2 Euro per year that would be enough to cover hosting costs. If every active user would pay 1 euro per month, I could quit my dayjob and focus on the Fediverse fulltime.

(Sidenote: Stux and I created the non-profit Fedihosting Foundation which owns lemmy.world … but finances are still separate for his and my instances)

The server is in Finland, actually. I am in The Netherlands, so is the non-profit foundation owning LW.

I’ll try to install the BookFace UI on friendica.world. Also I’ve started a Friendica manual at https://help.friendica.onl but it needs to get content.

How so?

This is for the Lemmy.World server (just the physical box, not the related VMs). Around 12TB last month.

Thanks, I sent them an e-mail.

It would have been better if they communicated to us first. I don’t disagree that user signups should be spread over instances. We now have a link to https://lemmyverse.net on our signup page so people can check if another instance would fit them better.

I have setup bskysocial.world to test that (there’s no web interface, just select this domain when logging in or signing up via the app or https://bsky.app)

Note: This is for testing only, I can’t promise it will remain running.

(I am @ruud.bskysocial.world)

I do host some stuff myself 😉 but there’s one thing to keep in mind.

Don’t self host stuff that your family still needs after you’re gone. Unless they are self host nerds like you. I stopped self hosting our mail and docs for example.

Would you agree?

I did register writefreely.world planning to host that one day, but I need some more selfhosting nerds to help out running all these instances :-) The foundation is now already running a few dozen Fedi instances :-D

It’s also an option to just ask if it can be unpinned. You’re welcome. Have a nice day.

That won’t work. I have 340k users on my servers and it just covers the running cost. So with a 100 user instance you would get peanuts.

I added a Liberapay link: https://liberapay.com/fhf/

Ohh I didn’t know there was a minimum setting in Ko-Fi. I changed the minimum there to 1. Thanks!

Ko-Fi or PayPal directly, or crypto

We keep that at https://blog.mastodon.world (I know, I’m behind with that…)

Thanks!!

This is f**kin annoying me. Because we don’t pay for premium support, it takes them hours to respond to an e-mail. So they ask me to specify a time when they can enable the account, so I can immediately remove the content. So I specify 12:00 UTC, but they don’t respond so I need to propose a new time hoping they will respond before that…

Grrr