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?

  • Austin-Philp
    9•2 years ago

    This is something that needs to happen more - The whole point of the fediverse is that you don’t need any high population instances. Look at the situation with lemmy.ml - they’re hitting major infra issues as a result of their high user count, but they’re still accepting new users (as far as I can tell). Just close the doors and post a list of reccomended other instances with similar focuses.

    You can still access all the same content, regardless of your instance, or even platform