I know there’s donations and the owners can use their own money, but there’s a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

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    1 year ago

    There is some pros of self hosting, outside of it being a fun project. You can get custom emojis (sadly not on the mobile app yet, otherwise there would be a :blobheart: right here) and custom themes ^^

    So I don’t think most small instances are necessary looking to increase in user size. Or at least that is not my intention.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah themes are fun but I think most people use one of the android apps anyway, and then the local theme doesnt matter there.

      But it cant hurt to make the web theme a bit nicer - its currently “functional” but maybe not the best looking. I actually like a lot of whitespace in web design, but a lot of people dont.