Lemmy is like a public library of the internet: it's one of the few places where you can exist without the expectation of paying either through watching ads or through direct payments

snek_boi@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

Lemmy is like a public library of the internet: it's one of the few places where you can exist without the expectation of paying either through watching ads or through direct payments

Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net · 6 months ago

Yeah something like the CX22 https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/ which is € 4.51 / month is enough for lemmy.

What I do instead is I host a series of services on my VPS and I pay about 20 EUR/month

Lemmy
Mastodon
PeerTube
my ruby on rails website + blog
my old PHP website + blog
another old PHP blog
my sisters PHP website
my sisters static website
Firefox Sync server
my bands static website
a matrix server with some bridges
a syncthing instance
a TTRSS instance
another static website

and I probably forgot some things.

ericatty@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

Love this! Did you start out on the Fediverse or did you start on another and then move to your own?

I ask because I’ve been considering hosting my own for the family. I already have a server.

The thing holding me back is I’ve gotten my Mastodon and Lemmy accounts really nice with content and it’s daunting to think of moving/remaking accounts.