True, but it’s up to Tom if he wishes to be transparent about costs and/or donations received or not.

As I used to run a large server for a large community forum a few years ago - admin’ing something like this can sometimes be a very thankless task, and users will be sympathetic if you’re out of pocket (and only some will help) but as soon as they see you made a tiny bit of profit one month, they forget the fact that actually, you’re about £1k down at the moment, as this extra £62.32 I’ve made this mornth can go against that… ;-) Not to mention the free time given up to actually maintain and look after a busy server. So I’d totally understand if he didn’t want others telling him what he might be doing wrong with his costs, etc. “Oh, well, you could save £4.20 if you moved the whole service to this little unknown company … etc.” :)

I’m also hoping as the code for Lemmy matures, it becomes less memory-hungry and more CPU-friendly. The more help they get on Github to make it truly scalable, the better.

Time will tell! I’m just thankful for what we have now.