Hi there, fresh fledditor learning the ropes around here.
I have noticed there are a couple of communities that havenβt been created yet that I was a regular in on reddit. Iβve been thinking about starting new ones here, but donβt really understand who pays for the overhead if I create a new community.
Since this isnβt a centralized website like reddit, what infrastructure does a new community depend on and who pays for it?
Thanks yall.
you only need to maintain the community if you make one, similar to a moderator role in reddit (also called mods here though lol), thereβs no cost there but you also donβt get paid, just like reddit mods. Only the server admins maintain the server, and if it gets bigger, all the costs are on the admins. Thatβs why they open donation channels, and you can support them through that.
note : server admins, each server has their own admins. For example, youβre on lemmy.ml, that one has their own admin, but Iβm replying from lemmy.world (magic of the fediverse) which has different guy as admin. You can just support the server youβre in.
the downside is that if an admin (or several, maybe some servers are run by a group, I donβt know) canβt no longer support a server, any data including your account in that server is gone. Hopefully a βmigrationβ feature can be implemented in the future.
Thanks so much for the info!
Worries me a little bit on the scalability side of things, but honestly I kinda hope this place doesnβt get as big as reddit got. I enjoyed that place a lot more before it got huge. The content and conversations were just better all around.
