It was pretty surprising to read their first update that had it at $12 a month! Though my server is running on a $2 a month VPS (currently) and doing pretty well so when you don't have too many users it doesn't cost an awful lot to run (so long as your technical people are donating their time!)
Mersampa
joined 1 year ago
There's a financials post here: https://beehaw.org/post/416496
And near the bottom of this page you can see the donations made, the money actually spent, and their current balance: https://opencollective.com/beehaw
I wish I'd known about Beehaw earlier, though before this influx it seems there wasn't a huge amount of content as the community was pretty small.
I have known about Lemmy for some time, but the more popular instances were basically filled with people who had been kicked off reddit for their views. It was not a welcoming place, so until now I hadn't felt comfortable hanging around.
Are they not? The donation page says "This Collective's Fiscal Host is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your contribution will be tax-deductible in the US, to the extent allowed by the law."
I presumed this was based on the umbrella you were accepted under to be on opencollective?
I... can't see anywhere where they are complaining? This was just a post about how much the server cost to run. They updated it over time with new numbers as they beefed up the server capacity. But the post basically says "Here's how much it costs to run, and we have plenty of money". I don't see the complaining?
Represent! Love being a part of history. I'll tell my kids about this some day.
Somehow "the first rule of reddit" got forgotten, and suddenly everyone knew about it. That's about when it went downhill.
Yes! It's who you ask when you aren't sure what the idea, concept, or term is. Once you are armed with that information, use a proper search engine.
It helps to understand what ChatGPT is, and what it isn't.
ChatGPT does not understand anything you say. And it only does one word (technically part of a word, but to keep it simple) at a time.
What it's doing is it is guessing the most likely next word based on the words that have come before it. If you think of you phone's keyboard, it probably has word suggestions for what to say next. ChatGPT is like hitting the recommended word over and over until it has an answer. It's spouting words based on how likely the word is to come next. That is all.
It uses advanced machine learning to do that, but whether it counts as AI is for the reader to decide. But it's certainly not planning out a thoughtful answer for you.
And that's not even taking into account that the training data largely comes from the internet, the place where people continuously make shit up.
I'm not sure sorry! I have the same issue.
I mentioned Lemmy on Mastodon and some people noted some controversy surrounding the "main" instances. I don't know exactly what concerned people
One of, if not the most active lemmy instance is a Marxist, pro-Russian war, pro-CCP, pro-North Korea community. When I signed up on lemmy.ml a while back, it was almost all you saw.
The problem with reddit alternatives is that, until now, the only people leaving reddit were the ones kicked off. They needed new homes and they found them in unmoderated communities they could host themselves, like lemmy.
Some of us have been waiting for some time for more "average" redditors to make the move, so this exodus is like Christmas coming early.
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I joined when you had under 1000 users total, now there are 1.3k online at this very moment. I can imagine it's quite a strain!