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Lemmy.world down, probably following the upgrade. A reminder to move to smaller instances for a better experience
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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That's a false dichotomy. My instance is part of my larger suite of services that I provide on communick. I've pledged to have the first 250 users for free forever, after that access will be given through the paid plans, which is basically $8/year. I'm also planning to contribute 10% of my revenue to the lemmy developers.
If this instance ever gets big enough to the point that it can pay itself and a salary to me (I'm guessing around ~10k users), I would simply close the instance for registrations. The reason for doing it is that I'd rather see the fediverse with thousands of small-medium sized instances instead of concentrated in a handful of servers like we have now.
Anyway, I know that is just a data point, but here we have a (a) professionally managed instance (b) with a clear model for make it sustainable and (c) who still hasn't managed to signup 30 users.