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How is Lemmy going to make money? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by buda@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] elight@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (25 children)

How about "let's support kbin. Lemmy is a tire fire waiting to happen as it seems to be written by tankies."

[–] Austin-Philp@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Currently commenting this from kbin - honestly I love it, much more flexible than Lemmy, you can still use all Lemmy content and you can access Mastadon through it!

[–] Outsider@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing I'm wondering about is, how to discover kbin instances? There's a spot on the website to encourage people to create their own instances, but how do people find them? I mean if the developer is able to fund to keep his own website open then I guess it doesn't matter, but I assume if he's encouraging people to create their own instances it might be worthwhile to have people be able to find these instances.

Edit: Found it. I had looked all over the website for something to show what instances it was federated with (like how Lemmy has it on the bottom) but I couldn't find it, but I clicked on dev's kbin account and its in his profile.

https://the-federation.info/platform/184

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kbin has a site similar to join-lemmy.org on https://kbin.pub

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