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?

  • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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    Lemmy is not a company, it’s built by volunteers. If you want a corporate platform go to Reddit.

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      Ban me now you cunt. You’ve more sensitive than Spez and I didn’t think that was even possible.

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      And hundreds of users are requesting the “volunteers” to add a feature. If y’all want this shit to grow, add basic QoL that should’ve been there at launch.

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          For real, I’m back today after a couple of days and there are so many removed comments. Why can’t we have nice things, people? *groans*

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        1 year ago

        I honestly can’t tell if

        removed by mod

        was removed by mod, or just an italicized removed by mod.

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          My browser is set to default to French (which I speak / am still learning) and to me it says

          supprimé par le modérateur

          so this one is real. A visual distinction could be nice, that might be a decent newcomer contribution to the codebase.