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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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for x$ a month get a checkmark next to your name on posts. in whatever colours you pay for. buy checkmarks for others.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

ร  la tumblr

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really nice merch, with small logos on. Think how the LTT stealth stuff is.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Donate to the devs!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

By not asking the same question every single day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

IMO it sounds like that some AI corporation should host their own instance(s). They only pay for server and maintenance costs, while community does the rest and they have their data.

Would be best of both worlds, isn't it? Once they become greedy, we are f*cked again, just like Reddit did...

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Since it's distributed, the cost doesn't even compare to a centralized instance. It's really hard to say how much it would cost to host everyone across the fediverse, but because of decentralization, it'll be a hell of a lot easier to achieve.

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

edit: misposted comment - see bizarre explanation below (and it's not just me)

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