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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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[–] ShadowAether 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could that be solved by caching? Can't the smaller instance avoid some duplication?

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

If I'm reading the protocol right, it's probably larger instances that will avoid more duplication, since:

There's a higher chance they're going to have more communities shared among users (for really tiny instances you're probably going to get a lot of overlap since those people likely have interconnected interests, but I expect that would fall off quickly, but then converge at scale).
The larger number of users will mean they 'use' more of the content they're pulling down (I can't read all of a highly active community in a day, but 1000 people together checking through the day might 'use' it all).

I'm not sure I see where you see caching fitting in.
I am surprised I don't see some kind of lower resolution digest concept in the protocol (which might be what you're looking for)