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How can the fediverse scale and grow to large communities like Reddit without large infrastructure and servers? How can a non-profit driven platform afford to keep the lights on if this takes off? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I mean I could be completely wrong but I think that’s where federation actually comes out on top. Look at Reddit, apparently still not even profitable. However if someone on Lemmy owns an instance and infrastructure costs get too high they can stop new communities and users from joining until they get more money through donations or whatever ways people come up with sourcing income.

Again though, this could all be completely wrong and misled but that’s what I think at least.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Look at Reddit, apparently still not even profitable.

    Yet they spent millions on the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight controversies for a start.

    I'm not sure how scalable Lemmy is, like from what I read it still has a big OLTP database per instance at some point. It'd be nice if it could be come super-cheap to run even if that means opting out of image hosting, etc. on some instances.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I didn't necessarily think about some of the overhead that your comment brought up when I made mine. I like your idea about opting out of some features on certain instances and I think that makes sense for quite a few users/communities/instance hosters.

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