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How will lemmy sustain itself? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Maldreamer@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Donations. Click on the heart on the top bar to support Lemmy development and lemmy.ml hosting. Other instances have their own donation boxes

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

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

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And so will people who care about their server and want to keep it going :)

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

Yes that could happen. We will see ^^