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Who pays for the infrastructure for hosting communities?

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Hi there, fresh fledditor learning the ropes around here.

I have noticed there are a couple of communities that haven’t been created yet that I was a regular in on reddit. I’ve been thinking about starting new ones here, but don’t really understand who pays for the overhead if I create a new community.

Since this isn’t a centralized website like reddit, what infrastructure does a new community depend on and who pays for it?

Thanks yall.

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Thanks so much for the info!

Worries me a little bit on the scalability side of things, but honestly I kinda hope this place doesn’t 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.

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Well that’s also where fediverse is a perk. There are, and likely will always be parallel channels on different instances. IE so while lemmy.ml may have the largest asklemmy, there probably will be smaller less active asklemmy’s on other instances.

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