Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them? - minie4's Lemmy

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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?

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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?

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Because I don’t want to be reliant on someone else’s servers, plus I can set it up exactly how I want.

As for how I pay for the server, I use a free OCI VPS, so… I don’t.
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  I tried to sign up to this, but it doesn’t support my bank’s “confirm purchase” thing, and it errored when I tried a virtual credit card…

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