aski3252

I don't host a lemmy instance yet, but I host other services and I do it mainly for fun. As far as I have read, a small scale lemmy instance runs very well on very low performance hardware, which means the cost of running it is probably less than 10 $ a month.

The big lemmy instances that need better hardware have patreons and other services where people can donate money.

Duckduckgo as default. If I need location/region specific stuff, I will sometimes use google.

I'm pretty vanilla. I use fedora for desktop and debian for servers.