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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    Since you need a fixed ip address and domain name, it usually rules out running at home, also because internet delivery companies usually don’t provide very good upload speeds to users at home.

    So I think you can trust the uptime for sure, but one risk is that smaller instances may decide to shut down if they don’t get any users. So there is that risk… :)

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      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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        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.