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How is Lemmy going to make money? (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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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

From the information in the OG reply it seems pretty out of hand to me though, which makes the switch to Kbin that much easier as it's just plain better, and have full functionality to interact with microblogs. If Lemmy was the only one it would makes sense to fork it if needed, but now we have like 3 reddit-like fediverse platforms that we can choose between.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We should encourage more, frankly. Misskey has exploded in forks, and it's meant good things.

So long as they're interoperable, the diversity in experiences is good for all of us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the 3rd platform?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It is called lotide. You can read about it here https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/ , I guess there is also a 4th one called prismo, but the developer put down their project for various reasons, so i don't count it in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

And Friendica has full groups support, AFAIK, so it functions like an inverse kbin, focusing the microblogging but giving full group access.

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

Oh that's right. I remember seeing it at one point but immediately dismissing it because of the interface. I could see how that would apply to some, but I'm definitely more of a kbin/Calckey kind of guy.

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

5th is Brutalinks