Rikudou_Sage

I was talking more about the user cap than the price itself. Being capped like that is what makes it expensive.

So while it might not be that easy to win on the price as an absolute number, it’s very easy to win on price per user.

Holy shit that’s expensive.

Speak for yourself.

That’s just a part of the learning process, IMO. My instance crashed many times, I’ve fixed it every time and now it’s better than before. And I don’t think I’ve had my last fuck up with the instance.

Well, you can always defederate if an instance starts abusing it. Not that much different to the normal flow, really.

Note that many instances either have a bot subscribed to other communities to force federation, or use something like https://lemmy-federate.com/

Depending on how much you want to donate, you could also pay for a server somewhere. For example Hetzner hosting starts pretty cheap. That way you can self-host without having to host it on a physical machine.