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

submitted 2 years 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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[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the 3rd platform?

[–] mstrbtr@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is called lotide. You can read about it here https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/ , I guess there is also a 4th one called prismo, but the developer put down their project for various reasons, so i don't count it in.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

And Friendica has full groups support, AFAIK, so it functions like an inverse kbin, focusing the microblogging but giving full group access.