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?

  • j4yc33
    15•11 months ago

    If you think the point of anything in the fediverse if for profit, you’ve missed the point. It’s federated, if it gets too many users to support itself, it will collapse into several smaller chunks.

    The whole premise is built on the same concepts as the early web, it’s interconnected, it’s self-managing, and it will scale only until it can’t and then it will peacefully split.