budaJun 8, 2023

How is Lemmy going to make money?

https://lemmy.ml/post/1175822

How is Lemmy going to make money? - Lemmy

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?

Show threadteoriaJun 8, 2023
Did mastodon die, without funding?
Show threadbudaJun 8, 2023
Many instance have gone down due to costs being too high
Show threadKichaeJun 8, 2023

A big issue there has also been single-user admin/mod teams. Running a site of several thousand active users is not something just one or two people can do, especially when you also have to screen remote content that's streaming in.

You can always shut down user registrations if the server's reaching the point of financial sustainability.

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It's this. I love the idea of running an instance and have considered it many times. But modding the thing is no joke. It's real work that needs to be taken seriously.
Jun 10, 2023 at 2:03amWeb