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Who will pay for lemmy? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First post, honest question.

Who will pay for lemmy? There were a few sites that started sometime back because they were fed up with something about reddit but eventually they all crashed because they had no funds. How will lemmy be different?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It says the developers are self funded but they are working all day on Lemmy it seems. So they are unemployed and working on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are funded by a foundation, NLnet. AFAIK they set certain development goals together and the devs are paid when those are reached.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's how a lot of open source works tbh, often devs have jobs to make money and work on their project in free time then if the project gains traction they start making enough off donations or whatever to drop their other work.