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Wikipedia is probably the most important thing on the internet fight now. It also needs some amount of servers, many crawlers scan it daily, I assume its a shitton of users and logins and API hits and what not. And still it survives on donations alone.
Eventually lemmy is not a streaming services with videos and and a lot of bandwidth. Its just text and people connecting. So I assume you dont need massive servers and shit.
With that said, I'd encourage everyone to sign up to donate a dollar a month to your Mastodon and Lemmy instance. To me, a couple of bucks a month is worth it to not have to fight against a dumb algorithm or deal with ads.
I wonder how similar Lemmy is to Wikipedia in terms of storage/bandwith requirements? It's text and pictures in both cases, but there may be nuances that i'm not aware of as a noob
One big difference right now is that it's a ton of small people donating their time and servers for this. So the costs aren't as centralized and are spread over many people.
I saw a thread of instance owners talking about why they host, and some actually get free server usage through their work or run servers already and Lemmy only uses a small portion of that.
And if we ever want to post videos, I imagine PeerTube links would be a good way to go?
undefined> PeerTube
This is honestly a good idea.
Link to undefined?
That was added to my post when I replied lol. Must've been a glitch 🤷♂️.
Wikipedia's page serves simple. The documents get edited and processed into html when submitted.
Lemmy dynamically builds the html for every single http get.
That's a very different cost for a server.
Umm, no? Lemmy UI is a PWA/SPA and all the html "building" happens in your browser.
It doesn't really matter that much if the Lemmy protocol itself doesn't build the html - there is still a process that involves multiple steps that may or may not be server side in order to build the comment trees that we see.
There's a node, yea! Oh hey... that node has children! Awesome! All of those exclamation points are either server side or client side lookups. Hurray! Oh look it's a wikiepedia article. No exclamation point lookups allowed.
This is the only way to monetize and the best way
https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld