I've been hosting a gaming server plus other related stuff myself for some years now.
While the user base will definitely be different, relying solely on donations is unfortunately not sustainable long-term. Donations fluctuate massively based on time of year in my experience. So it's always good to periodically remind your community that lemm.ee needs donations to survive long-term.
When I do those reminders, users come out of the woods in droves to donate. It's less that they're unwilling to donate and more that they just forget to donate.
Currently, the default sort type for comments is "Hot".
I checked the settings, and there doesn't seem to be an option to set the default sort type to anything else such as "Top" which I massively prefer.
It's not the biggest deal since I can always just click on "Top" once the comments load. But it would be nice if there was a way to change the default type....