Ghost have their code open source and offer paid for hosting which is not unreasonable as you’d to pay to send bulk emails anyway even if you self-hosted (although there are free tiers from some providers if your only send a few hundred a month).

There had been discussion about a Fediverse game and I suggested that a text-based MMORPG (like Urban Dead) would be doable.

It’ll soon be covered by the US instances if the Danish army can’t see off the Yanks.

I was just going to ask what the Irish instance was. I’d correct that asap as they can get awfully feisty when riled. I’ve got ¾ Irish ancestry, so it’s not racist.

Would it help if we got together a zipped file of the various Fediverse logos as SVGs and linked it in over there? The less work they have to do the more likely it would be to get adopted.

But I strongly believe that depending on donations is a very tough place to be

If you get a good deal on hosting then, on medium-sized instance donations easily cover costs. lemmy.world suggests this can scale up a lot even if you need more complex systems in place to deal with demand.

Yeah, the important thing is to get people off the Big Web, we can work on getting them their forever home later.