1$ per year per registered user would be more than enough to pay the hosting costs with a very good amount of pocket money per admin. 1$ per year per MAU would be enough to pay the hosting costs indefinitely.
To actually pay the admins and sysadmins according to their effort, it would require something close to to 10$ per month per MAU
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Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down.
Well when one runs an instance of 1000+ mau they need to accept it's not "their house" anymore. Those that don't, quickly end up in shit storms against their communities 😅
Not to discourage you, but expect this sort of bot to be banned on reddit side very quickly. I had way more innocuous reddit bots banned without reason or recourse.
It's not really the backup since last year, but the primary, but reddit won't let me shut down /r/piracy and the other mods who took over my top spot after reddit removed me still believe in reddit, so they refuse to leave and call lemmy still the backup.
Because someone has to, and not everything is about money