This server isn’t the only one I’m running in the Fediverse :-) I’m currently running these:
https://lemmy.world: You’re looking at it.
https://mastodon.world: My largest server, over 160.000 users.
https://musicworld.social: Another Mastodon server about 1 of my hobbies
https://pool.social: Another Mastodon server about another hobby of mine
https://fotofed.nl: A Pixelfed instance
https://calckey.world: A Calckey server. A bit different from Mastodon.
https://fediland.nl: A Misskey server. Calckey is forked from Misskey, personally I like calckey better.
https://play-my.video: A Peertube server
https://akkoma.nl: An Akkoma server (kind of lightweight but fully featured Mastodon)
https://ruud.social: Akkoma server just for me
https://blog.mastodon.world: My writefreely server, yes that federates too.
More to come probably…
How do you fund mastodon.world? Do you collect donations?
Yes. See the sidebar on the homepage for the links.
How much are the operating costs a month usually?
Around 400-500 EUR. I also try to keep a blog about the finances https://blog.mastodon.world but I’m a bit behind…