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?

  • Krusty@feddit.itEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Instances could maybe put up a Patreon with features such as voting to decide things related to the instance for example. There’s plenty of ways to make money without VC.

    Another idea could be making a bot that only works for people who donated, I don’t know…

    Maybe get funding from the European Commission or https://nlnet.nl/ or https://www.ngi.eu/ or something like that