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

Well, it's working right now, isn't it? If the load increases n times and donations also increase n times, it will keep working just fine.

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[–] theory@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Did mastodon die, without funding?

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[–] j4yc33@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you think the point of anything in the fediverse if for profit, you've missed the point. It's federated, if it gets too many users to support itself, it will collapse into several smaller chunks.

The whole premise is built on the same concepts as the early web, it's interconnected, it's self-managing, and it will scale only until it can't and then it will peacefully split.

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[–] elight@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My prior comment was moderated out of the thread silently?

[–] zarquon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I still see it no problem. Does have a negative net in votes though

[–] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

It has been downvoted to the bottom. Divisive behaviour is discouraged. I love it. :-)
kbin might still be good, though.

[–] elight@kbin.social -4 points 2 years ago (11 children)

How about "let's support kbin. Lemmy is a tire fire waiting to happen as it seems to be written by tankies."

[–] cbt@snabelen.no -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

@elight @buda I support this message 😅

[–] elight@kbin.social -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, I'm wrong. I appear to be sort of banned but with no notification or warning. I can see the content here when no authenticated. When I authenticate, I see no comments on this post. Cute. And lousy moderation.

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[–] elight@kbin.social -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yet our messages were removed from the thread.

Seems to make my point for me. They're hiding who they are.

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[–] jackissocool@urbanists.social -2 points 2 years ago

@elight
Tankies are right
@buda

[–] mstrbtr@kbin.social -4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Jesus this got massdownvoted by Lemmy tankies! xD Luckily there isn't the same impact on Kbin when viewing the OG comment.

[–] mstrbtr@kbin.social -2 points 2 years ago

Update: Now there are 16 downvotes on Lemmy, but like 1 upvote. While on Kbin 18 upvotes. xD

@buda @elight

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