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How is Lemmy going to make money? (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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't know about France. I live in one of your neighbouring countries and as a graduate or even undergrad software dev you won't have a hard time finding a job that pays 60k+. 80k+ is rare but definitely also exists.

Edit: And yea all of these are pre tax obviously. The cost of living is also quite high though. For example in some places over here rent for even a small flat is 1k or more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I live in Italy and here a 50k€ job is considered on the very high end for a senior developer. It means around 2500€/month net and keep in mind that the medium job in Italy is just a bit less than 34k

[–] whyNotSquirrel 1 points 1 year ago

oh okay, places i thought about it's like 700e for a 3 rooms flat. And of course in France you have healthcare and stuff, but most likely the same in most of Europe

With the cost of living in country in east i think they could find skilled passionated devs, and pay them a fair price, which french companies already do (without the fair price)