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?

  • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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    1 year ago

    Donations will work totally fine. If you checkout the Mastodon Patreon, they are getting 28k euros per month, and more through other platforms. With the way Lemmy is growing now, it should definitely be enough to pay the salaries for dessalines and me, and hopefully even take on more contributors.

    Anyway lets wait how the Reddit blackout next week goes before discussing funding in detail. Things are still uncertain now.

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      1 year ago

      Please make mod tools a top priority. It’s absolutely asinine that I need to have someone comment in a community to add them as a mod.

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        1 year ago

        Hell, even if it isn’t strictly a mod tool, being able to do this from someone’s profile page would be good.