I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!
Yeah it’s better to keep instance size within your budget.
But with so many users on Lemmy.world, donations could maybe work. Problem is that it’s not a fixed income, but the bills are fixed every month.