In the last week I have seen solar punk go down and aussie.zone owner talk about stepping away.
I’ve not seen two places down at once that has made it to my feed in the last 3 years.
Is the self hosting aspect of lemmy a detriment to the entire environment? Admins getting burnt out or the costs becoming too high is absolutely an issue.
I know this is kind of rambling but what would happen to Lemmy if the major hosters all went down, and we all spun up our own personal services?
I’m running both Retrolemmy and Retrofed because I like doing it. I made the community I would like to see. We are niche and small, but like our little place. I don’t know how it would be to host a big instance, but I like what we have here. I pay it out of pocket, and am happy to do so.
If you want, most instances accept donations of some kind. This can help for some Admins.