give OP a fraction of a cent per gold on a post.

Isn’t that what this article is actually about? Karma seems to be a factor, but the strings they found mention that you get paid based on gold received.

httpie now also has a postman-like UI! Been using it for a while and I’m liking it for what it is - https://httpie.io/app

For simpler hosting AWS can end up being much more expensive (and more work to manage) so it can be more cost-effective to stick to a VPS from providers like DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc.

For example, lemmy.world is hosted on Hetzner and uses an alternative to S3 for media, if I had to wager they’d probably spend much more by being on AWS.