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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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[–] actuallyacat 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit has over 2,000 employees most of whom are doing bullshit nobody using the site actually needs or wants, it's possible to run a lot leaner than that. Like Reddit itself used to, before they started burning hundreds of millions trying to compete with every other social media site at once instead of being Reddit

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

bullshit nobody using the site actually needs or wants

Like being CEO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is what gets me the most. For the vast majority of users the site was feature complete before they rolled out new reddit. No one was asking for Reddit to host images/videos, chats, livestreams, user profiles, or NFT profile pictures. The only things they should have been investing in were infrastructure/scaling and mod tools.