On top of what other already said they accidentally DDOS’d the Aur repos and took it down for couple hours one time.

Meanwhile Turkish: asdfasdfadf/sdfjhdjhd. We just spam random letters.

I mean if I am not paying either way me ingesting that content or not makes 0 difference to the producer. It is the same logic as throwing excess food to the trash so homeless can’t eat it.

I mean most of the “Reddit content” on Lemmy is thing that get posted to Reddit from other sites anyway. I don’t think the reddit vibe has existed except the same tired comments for a long time now

Wikipedia has been running on donations for so many years. So I don’t think we are close to reaching that limit in any way

Looks like they do add quite a bit security features. Having SELinux installed and working out of the box being the biggest. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Features

Yeah! of course when I say a small instance, I don’t mean a random instance with 10 users. You should check it out before you join. There is a lot of great instances with ~1000 users. Maybe should add it to the post.