CommiePatrolWho will pay for lemmy?
So I’m reading all answers here, and one thing come to mind - it’s seems like it inevitable, that bunch of rich guys gonna host some of the most populated instances, if Fediverse get traction? For purpose of advertising, self promoting and all that?
That could absolutely happen.
At the end of the day it’s up to the community.
If they don’t like that they don’t sign up to that instance. If other instances don’t like it they defederate.
It’s the beauty of federation.
I imagine most will end up running on donations.
We may even end up with multiple hives of defederate instances that take different approaches.
With the LemmyPHP frontend we could even go back to small pockets of forums.
They don’t really depend on Lemmy to do that.