We recently received a message from a concerned Rammy user regarding their instance not having an active admin team.
We have made attempts to contact the Rammy admins, which other instance admins have tried as well, to determine their current status. Due to their admins being absent and their unmoderated content growing in numbers, we will defederate from Rammy. If and when this situation changes, we will be happy to reevaluate our approach. It should be noted that any instances that have abandoned admin teams will be defederated.
That’s… not how servers work. If you are running a home server with hypervisor, which a lot of people are, starting a virtual server probably doesn’t cost you more than $1 a month.
I’m still trying to understand what he means with the rent or mortgage thing… Of course there is a cost but he doesn’t seem to understand how something like that easily stays under the radar… you are not going to notice it when a certain bill goes up for the little bit it costs to self host or what impact it will have on your mortgage… There are things like data usage that will be easier and clearer indicators
It doesn’t make any sense, the most they are realistically paying is €6 a month, and that is if they rented the VPS specifically for running Lemmy, in all other scenarios it is basically free.
It’s not like you can turn off the server and call the bank and tell them now you don’t have to pay the mortgage, your overhead stays the same if the Lemmy service is on or off.