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for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

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[–] crazyminner 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The nice thing about Lemmy that Reddit never had is that it can only improve in ways that the community wants! Not more putting up with asinine decisions from people who only see us as dollar signs.

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

How is lemmy financed? Someone still needs to pay for servers, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is opensource, you can see and get a copy of the source code here. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy There's no development cost because all developers are volunteers at this stage.

For each instance that depends on the admins running that individual instance. The instance I use is being sponsored by a NZ company that are providing the admin's a free virtual server to host on.

[–] crazyminner 2 points 2 years ago

I have no idea. I'm sure we'll figure that out along the way. At first it will probably be out of pocket from thousands of homelab hobbiests.

Maybe eventually they could implement something like gilding that Reddit had. I'm sure gilding alone could fund a lot of servers. When you take out the millions of dollars the share holders were taking it properly didn't take much money to run all of Reddit.

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

Yes, but that means it's going to split communities up between servers. So there won't be a mass exodus like reddit, just a handful of communities at a time (if needed).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nah, that's where the federation comes in. The tech has a lot of room to grow, but you never have to move to join the "winning" group for a topic - you just have to sub

Moving forward, there's already talk about how/if you should reconcile overly similar groups across servers. It's certainly possible, and discovery is definitely going to improve quickly - the only question is can Lemmy hold onto the new users long enough to get past the growing pains

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Each instance is responsible for their own server costs. Many accept donations!