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[โ€“] kryostar@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The host of the instance owns/runs the server for any instance. There is no money to be made. The servers stay up because people donated or the instance owners paid for it.

Edit: the right way of saying it is.. the instances, at least the bigger ones, are crowd-funded.

[โ€“] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been doing some reading. I love things that go back to the idea of old internet mentality.

[โ€“] kryostar@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

This is the way.