I’m really enjoying lemmy. I think we’ve got some growing pains in UI/UX and we’re missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn’t going to be free. Can someone with actual server experience chime in with some back of the napkin math on how expensive it would be if everyone migrated from Reddit?
Can I ask about the server load? I have a Plex server sitting around doing mostly nothing. I don’t want to compromise that experience, but I’ve been thinking about starting an instance.
It’s pretty negligible at the moment, and I have about 20 and a decent number of communities indexed locally. Postgres is the heaviest container and it’s only using 3-5% CPU at any given time. I do expect resource usage to jump up if more users join, but from everything I’m seeing, my current 4c/8gb ram should be fine for a while at least.