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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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[–] savedbythezsh 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was thinking about setting up a Pi to host a small/personal Lemmy instance, do you think that's a reasonable plan? I have no clue how resource intensive Lemmy is. Was thinking it could be nice to store my and friends' personal data on our own server instead of some random remote server (to some extent obvi).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes it should run perfectly fine on a Pi, at least for a small instance. You will need to get ports forwarded or setup a reverse proxy if hosting at home, since you'll need to generate a valid SSL cert (i.e. Letsencrypt) to be able to connect to the federation

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

It's possible till you run out of storage which becomes the main bottleneck assuming you are taking regular backups and distribute them across different sites. Bandwidth and CPU-wise I don't think Lemmy takes a lot of resources even for a moderate number of users.