Trying to wrap my head around the fediverse. Is each instance like another person with a server? Could that person just shut it down whenever they wanted to?
Are there any companies that have invested in hosting Lemmy/ other fediverse servers?
Sorry I’m sure I messed up some of the terminology, I hope my questions make sense! I love the idea of the fediverse as I understand it, but I like to dig into these details.
It would depend on the instance.
There’s a lot of self-hosting enthusiasts here so I would assume at least some are owned by the instance admins themselves. But I would also guess some others use a 3rd party service and technically do not own the server they rent.
If I was to host my own instance, I would end up renting something because I don’t have the UP speed to really run a webserver on my home internet. Nor the capacity on my one computer to handle any storage for people to do anything.