How can the fediverse scale and grow to large communities like Reddit without large infrastructure and servers? How can a non-profit driven platform afford to keep the lights on if this takes off?

KillaBeez@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

How can the fediverse scale and grow to large communities like Reddit without large infrastructure and servers? How can a non-profit driven platform afford to keep the lights on if this takes off?

Odin@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

An older name for ‘the fediverse’ is ‘the world wide web’, and an older name for that is ‘arpanet.’ It’s a pretty recent development that a few large companies control access to information.