I just saw what BeeHaw (or something like that) is and it is described in their sidebar that running their instance and all that costs money. I know that operating servers costs at least a little bit of money but I don’t know who provides that for Lemmygrad. I have never seen the option to donate to this community and as far as I know there isn’t any rich leader of ours that sponsors us. So who actually operates Lemmygrad and funds it?
I actually saw that lemmy.ml and lemmy development itself is funded by some European fund for open internet I’ve never heard of. Not sure if it’s just some open grant or what.
https://nlnet.nl/project/Lemmy/index.html
I don’t think they fund lemmygrad hosting in particular though so I assume that’s out of pocket but I don’t know.
NLNet are fine - they tend to fund projects that promote free and open alternatives to gigantic american companies. If memory serves they’ve funded mastodon, and lots of other small projects too.
Never said they were suspicious just not something I’d heard of. Seems fine to me.
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