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?
That is just one instance and that is a small amount of users. Reddit has 430 million active monthly users. Let’s say 1% move over to Lemmy. According to the 4 GB per 22 days (with ~1k users per instance) for Lemmy.world, that would mean you would need 1.6 Terrabytes of storage per day to support that 1% of users. Of course this would be spread over a number of instances… but you can start to see where the problem lies…