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?
Yea, lemmy is volunteer run, so most of the cost is going to be hosting it would seem, unlike reddit who have to pay for employees/office space(?)/legal fees/ect. I would imagine that the larger instances will have the most problems paying for hosting while the small ones will probably be fairly cheap.