Very good point

That’s another point. I guess over time some instances would aggregate in clusters. There is probably low interest for a niche software development English speaking instance to federate with a local Japan speaking city instance

You are basically asking people to work for free for you

No, the point I’m making is that it’s easier to have a 3k instance requiring 80€ donations from its member, who would feel closer to the rest of the members and their administration team, than a 21k instance requiring 560€ per month.

To be honest, I also think that we should move away from the donations model to an open subscription model. 80€ per month for 3k users is 0,32€ per user, you can implement a system where users pay 0,5€ for their cost, and can even pay more and offer to cover the subscriptions costs for other users. That way you give a real sense of community among members, and allow the instance admins to have more financial stability.

I really like that downvotes are public

Let’s hope he’ll manage. I really like that instance

It is a great app, but more options are always welcome

That’s what I did, but some users are really afraid of having to change instances

Yes I was surprised by the negativity too

Happy to see I’m not the only ont thinking that!

Well, people ask openly other people when gu instance to move to due to LW instability, if there’s a better scenario than another, we can discuss it together

I didn’t know you were admin on slrkpnk.net, thank you for your work!

Wikipedia has to ask for donations several times. I’m not sure it’s 100% future proof for instances to have to rely on large donations

Indeed

Interesting, thanks for your feedback.

they have some apparently unique changes to backend to make it a very fast and easy to scale instance.

Shouldn’t that be merged into the Lemmy platform at some? It would probably benefit everyone

Have a look: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld/expenses

Congratulations!

Interesting. The costs of LW seems much higher, but also they have 20k more users

Indeed, but what happens if the donations stop?

Definitely agree, and that’s why I think we can try to prevent that trend by recommending smaller instances to users looking to migrate

Interesting drama