I am a very patient Apollo refugee. It may take many weeks for some servers to adapt to the ever-growing influx and for new apps to squash bugs and build out functionality. My body is ready. This is now home.
All we gotta do is be patient. It will work out fine, Lemmy has a lot of potential!
People! It’s open-source and community driven effort.
Lemmy is a software that can be hosted by anyone. So people just buy servers and run Lemmy instances on them. Of course, if a server has more members, it would require more hardware to run. So either upgrade the server to facilitate more users, or admins can stop the signup process.
People can also donate for maintenance of the server.
Each instance/server is being paid by the people that launched it / manage it. It’s cheaper to have several smallish instances than a few big ones, so take your favourite server flavour and create the account there. You could also create a small aws container shielded by cloudflare and linked to S3 or whatever and create a server for you and friends, it should cost around 15 ish euros a month which can me a shared cost, idk. Or simply donate to the server you belong to, or don’t, whatever floats your boat.
A mixture of everybody. Right now the service is new, so people are being really good about donations. There are also contributions from charities like the OpenCollective which are meant to help the development of these FOSS communities. As we hit the six months or one-year mark we may see some instance owners attempt monetization as donations dry up, and I remember that my favorite app Boost served ads in the free version to fund development which its Lemmy version may continue to do, but as long as there’s interest and community here the servers will stay up.
I joined Lemm.ee originally and then hopped to .world. Things took too long to load so here I am back to my original account
Edit: also using memmy and it has themes and gestures like Apollo and wefwef is also very Apollo like but I like memmy more
All of the lemmy apps work for every lemmy instance! I’m using Liftoff right now, which is working well for me. I’m on Android. I’ve seen a lot of people recommend Wefwef for iPhone.
I use memmy and dip into wefwef a bit but ultimately like memmy more. My parent comment won’t load so idr if I said I’m an Apollo refugee but both are very Apollo like with gestures and wefwef has Apollos subscription list but memmy feels like it has more polish. Plus lemmy has the theme I used on Apollo which is sunset
