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Today marks my first day on lemmy after leaving Reddit after 3 years, I already like the platform I just wish their was a mobile app, and wish the mobile web support was a bit more polished but i understand it’s still in it’s earlier stages

  • anonaddy29OP
    2·
    4 years ago

    yeah i’m really hoping to see lemmy succeed to, it’s always hard for early starting projects cause a big deal breaker is funding. And you can’t get funding if their is no user base. The best way to get user base is through influencers though get 1 influencer on the platform the rest follow like sheep

    • jsgohac
      3·
      4 years ago

      what kind of funding do you mean? I hope this remains true for the life of lemmy:

      Lemmy is free, open-source software, with no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever.

      also, do we really want influencers and sheep?

      • anonaddy29OP
        2·
        4 years ago

        Funding to keep the project alive, everything costs money. And yes influencers bring people and people talk to people and so on.

        • jsgohac
          2·
          4 years ago

          The tildes model (though invite only) seems appealing … here is a breakdown of their costs and donations:

          https://tildes.net/financials

          and on tildes potential lack of funding

          What if you don’t get enough donations to run the site full-time?

          One of the best parts about avoiding venture capital and other forms of investment is that there’s no pressure. Tildes doesn’t have to reach certain thresholds of traffic or revenue to prevent shutting down. The worst case is just that I end up running Tildes as a side project, and hope that it eventually grows to a point where it’s sustainable to work on full-time.

          granted, one main goal for lemmy is federation so approaches may vary, but in any event an influencers sheeple eyeballs revenue VC model is not the only one