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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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[–] Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not a programmer, but do you have something called an API? You could probably charge fees for that.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We hereby charge all users of lemmy seventy-billion dollars per GET request.

[–] ThePaSch@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

We think that's a fair price! You just need to optimize your shit, garbage, utterly useless piece of crap app to not SUCK so much!

[–] honk@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I know donations are an option, but I don’t think long term donations will be sustainable. Most users will never donate. I don't think that they are not sustainable. If everything works out to be a properly federated network that is made up out of a lot of small to medium sized instances I think that it would be sustainable. Hosting costs should actually not be too expensive. You don't end up with millions of users on a single instance causing it to have massive load. And users are generally more willing to contribute financially if they get the feeling of using a platform that reflects their values and is run with their interest in mind.