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What is the maximum number of active users on an instance before the financial burden gets too high for the admins? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Pretty straight question.

I see Lemm.ee is now the second most populated instance based on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, with 3634 monthly active users.

I also know that Lemmy devs said that

lemmy.ml is bigger than beehaw, and only costs 80 euros per month for a dedicated server.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/2372503

As lemmy.ml has 3561 monthly active users, should we consider that around 3,5k-4k users is the sweet spot for an instance population, and stop recommending the ones that reached that threshold?

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[–] grue@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would they stop? That revenue model has been working just fine for Wikipedia for over a decade now.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia has to ask for donations several times. I'm not sure it's 100% future proof for instances to have to rely on large donations

[–] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

wikipedia itself is more than fine, they just spend a ton of money on other projects thats what the donation drives are mostly funding (most of which suck tbh). Another org that does just fine funding itself through donation is the Organization for Transformative Works (i.e archiveofourown.org)

(if someone could repost this that's not on an instance blocked by sopuli that would be much appreciated)