I’m really enjoying lemmy. I think we’ve got some growing pains in UI/UX and we’re missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn’t going to be free. Can someone with actual server experience chime in with some back of the napkin math on how expensive it would be if everyone migrated from Reddit?

  • Wander@yiffit.netEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    That’s why I’m running my own server. Mastodon is much bigger than Lemmy and it does fine with community run servers.

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      Yeah technical users and people who are friends with technical users can just use a micro instance.

    • bitrate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Yep, I’m using lemmy.world mostly as a trial period, but I plan on getting on my own instance to help reduce the load on the community any way I can. Will probably get a few friends on it as well.