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How are we going to pay for all this? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by psylancer@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I'm really enjoying lemmy. I think we've got some growing pains in UI/UX and we're missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn't going to be free. Can someone with actual server experience chime in with some back of the napkin math on how expensive it would be if everyone migrated from Reddit?

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[โ€“] privateger@lemmy.plasmatrap.com 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By not all ending up on the same server.

[โ€“] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could we create an onboarding system that randomly picks an instance for each new user? It is not too important which instance a user joins due to federation, right?

[โ€“] Pisck@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The instance a user joins is quite important. An instance that doesn't want to store images and video will not want users who subscribe to all the image/video communities (that will federate their content over). A user whose interests are overwhelmingly technical won't be interested in local communities on an artist server, where a non-technical user might feel at home. Many instance moderation policies are friendly to right-wing and will be defederated by mainstream instances. And then there are loli/shota/koda instances...

[โ€“] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I see. Of course. That would mean the onboarding effort would have to ask a bunch of questions and each of the target instances would have to be able to describe their wants and don't wants. This could get much too complicated I guess.

[โ€“] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I see. Of course. That would mean the onboarding effort would have to ask a bunch of questions and each of the target instances would have to be able to describe their wants and don't wants. This could get much too complicated I guess.