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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 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] oryx@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Great idea! Surely you could just charge, oh I don't know, $20 million a year for it? That would easily cover operating costs and so much more!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com 12 points 1 year ago

charge 10 doge per upvote

[–] ThePaSch@feddit.de 9 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!