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How is Lemmy going to make money? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by buda@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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If the reddit exodus happens and Lemmy gets even 2% of reddit's daily active users, how will Lemmy sustain the increased traffic? I know donations are an option, but I don't think long term donations will be sustainable. Most users will never donate.

I know the goal of Lemmy isn't to make money, but I know that servers and storage costs add up quickly. Not to mention the development costs.

I would love to hear the plans for how to offset those costs in the future?

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[–] theory@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Did mastodon die, without funding?

[–] buda@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Many instance have gone down due to costs being too high

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

A big issue there has also been single-user admin/mod teams. Running a site of several thousand active users is not something just one or two people can do, especially when you also have to screen remote content that's streaming in.

You can always shut down user registrations if the server's reaching the point of financial sustainability.

[–] scrollbars@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

It's this. I love the idea of running an instance and have considered it many times. But modding the thing is no joke. It's real work that needs to be taken seriously.

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