How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big?

https://lemmy.world/post/1113268

How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big? - Lemmy.world

I know there’s donations and the owners can use their own money, but there’s a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

I mean, define “too big”.

Lemmy.world and mastodon.world are funded from mastodon.world’s OpenCollective account: opencollective.com/mastodonworld

They seem to be doing alright atm, though who knows how much of that is a byproduct of recent immigration.

Mastodon.world - Open Collective

Providing Fediverse instances to be used by anyone. (Mastodon, Lemmy, Calckey/Firefish etc)