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How is Lemmy going to make money? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by buda@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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If the reddit exodus happens and Lemmy gets even 2% of reddit's daily active users, how will Lemmy sustain the increased traffic? I know donations are an option, but I don't think long term donations will be sustainable. Most users will never donate.

I know the goal of Lemmy isn't to make money, but I know that servers and storage costs add up quickly. Not to mention the development costs.

I would love to hear the plans for how to offset those costs in the future?

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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 104 points 2 years ago (43 children)

Donations will work totally fine. If you checkout the Mastodon Patreon, they are getting 28k euros per month, and more through other platforms. With the way Lemmy is growing now, it should definitely be enough to pay the salaries for dessalines and me, and hopefully even take on more contributors.

Anyway lets wait how the Reddit blackout next week goes before discussing funding in detail. Things are still uncertain now.

[–] sam_uk@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think unless you invest in servers this week it will look like Lemmy.ml crashing and redditors not considering it a viable option. The proprietary alternatives will do well.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Join-lemmy.org will stay up and point new users to working instances.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Just arrived on Lemmy through join-lemmy.org, and I could quickly find a server.

I first saw a post about lemmy.ml being out of capacity which lead me to join-lemmy.org

I guess most of refugee will do the same.

Still have to learn a lot, I still don't know what are instance hosting, i guess profiles and subtopics, therefore if i interact on a sub hosted on lemmy.ml i guess I would also use it.

Well, going to study this

Thanks for this platform, even though reddit death was a liltle hope for me to waste less time on my phone !

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