As more and more people migrate to lemmy from reddit (just like i did), how will lemmy adapt to the people coming in and the cost incurred for hosting it. I imagine as more people start posting stuff just like they do on reddit, the cost on the server will increase. And as lemmy doesnt have any ads or tracking or anything of that sort, how will it cope up with this?

  • Maldreamer141@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Donation might cover up things, but the demand will only keep increasing as instances get big(?)

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        1 year ago

        I second this. Just donated $10 and this probably won’t be my last time donating either. I have hopes for Lemmy and I’m sure many people care about its development enough to donate.

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        1 year ago

        It may happen that the computational power required to run Lemmy increases superlinearly in the number of users. Then the amount that each user needs to donate would increase as well. But I’d expect if every user donates a euro a year, then server costs should be covered in any case.

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      1 year ago

      I mean the more people that join, the more people that donate. Reddit never got a cent from me directly, but I donated to beehaw when I made my account, and I plan to do it again, as this is just a small (but getting bigger) community, not a company trying to make a profit. They definitely won’t be rolling in money but I think they’ll be able to make it(and I certainly hope so)