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?

  • Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’m not a programmer, but do you have something called an API? You could probably charge fees for that.

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      1 year ago

      Great idea! Surely you could just charge, oh I don’t know, $20 million a year for it? That would easily cover operating costs and so much more!