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I am curious what % of user can the current lemmy instances take in from reddit

Can fediverse take on 30%, 50% or 100%?

For start, what are lemmy.ml and lemmy.world doing, are they just keep scaling up?

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

Out of curiosity, what's the current hardware?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How are you paying for this? Is lemmy.world controlled by you as a private individual? Is this going to be transferred to some sort of non-profit, or business entity? What are the options where you are at? Have you considered the legal aspects of various locations, (e.g. free speech protections, reach of law enforcement, etc)? Since this has the potential to blow up, now is the time to start thinking about these things?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a lot of questions :-) Quick answers:

  • It's being paid by donations (see homepage for links)
  • It's owned by me and run by a team of sysadmins/mods
  • I might think of a non-profit for all my Fediverse servers one day. For now I'm using my BV (dutch company).
  • Still looking into the legal stuff, also for Mastodon. Working with https://about.iftas.org
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How do you feel about all this commotion? Do you think the "great migration" might actually happen?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry if you already know this, but this might be helpful for lurkers that don't know such a thing exists.

I don't know anything about dutch corporate structures, but some US states have an entity called a benefit corporation. Think of it like a non-profit and corporation hybrid. It allows you to make a profit and grow, but operate like a non-profit where the purpose of the organization is something else. This gives you more flexibility that might not be available as a non-profit. I believe you can even incorporate as a non-citizen (I'm assuming here). Might I suggest an ask lemmy post to get ideas?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I will, in due time. For now focussing on other stuff. But it's on the roadmap.