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How is Lemmy going to make money? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by buda@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[-] wagesof@links.wageoffsite.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd like to see a live replication kind of thing. So if you're on !games@lemmy.ml it can merge with !games@behaw.meh and they super federate and advertise that this group exists, replicated, on four or five lemmy servers and the client tracks that every X hours and knows what the failovers are.

Solves some of the fragmentation issues and the backup/archive issues at the same time. Might even help with load balancing a bit if we have some kind of routing algo on the endpoints.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 3 points 1 year ago

That sounds really smart. Let communities decide which instances they federate with. The mod team owns the community, not the instance admins.

[-] cyber_kalashnikov@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I would love it!

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