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How are we going to pay for all this? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by psylancer to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the instance owner would have to limit number of posts a day if funding is running low, and would ask for donations before the post limit is removed. If no one donates, then I suppose its either shutting down an instance, or begin serving ads. Hmm pls dont become another reddit. I don't want to see another community get shut down.

[–] Frz 4 points 1 year ago

I know account migration is already on the list of features planned/considered by Lemmy but I think in the future one thing they might consider is community migration. So if an instance is dying/the admins decide to go wacko, the owners of a community can choose to pack up and move the entire community to be hosted on another instance, data and all. Of course the data transfers would probably take a huge ton of time and the Lemmy devs probably have a lot on their plate right now, but it’s something I see as possible in the future.