#i couldnt in good conscience fundraise for a fanfiction site at the same time even if people were willing to donate
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you know since the ao3 anon i've been looking into vps prices. tbh i think trying to get my own ao3 instance up and running would be a pretty fun personal project. seems like some vps services can be really cheap per month so i could just pay for a months worth of server usage and try get ao3 running on the server just to see if i can and then cancel my subscription once it's done. i guess i wouldn't mind keeping it up if i can keep it <£5/month (i stumbled across one service that claims <£1/month but i'd have to do more research not just go with the cheapest advertised price lol) but i dont think anyone else would use it regularly judging by the lack of response to my answer to yesterday's anon. i feel like the bare minimum for me to want to keep my own instance up is if one (1) person who actually gets readership also semi-regularly uploads fic to the instance
#ive been thinking about trying to publish some of my short stories (for free im never charging for intellectual 'property') online tbf#but i dont think id want to put it on an ao3 clone cause id want to publish under my pen name not under my regular social media username#like i wouldnt want it to be connected to my tumblr or whatever#and i dont write fanfic anymore. not opposed to it i just have no interest#if someone else wanted to use it and they actually got readership onto the site i wouldnt mind continuing to host it for them tbh#but yeah if i tried setting it up id probably just end up deleting the instance once ive had my fun setting it up#also i still am quite firmly against fundraising for this even if there were demand for it bc thats really just unjustifiable when so many#palestinians are struggling to fundraise for crossing the border and leaving gaza#i couldnt in good conscience fundraise for a fanfiction site at the same time even if people were willing to donate#so i wouldnt have the site at the kind of scale where i cant fully cover costs out of pocket (or maybe me jointly with some other ppl who#help run the site)#anyway this is how i entertain myself these days i guess. amateur sysadmining
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