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?
It would of course be hugely complex and likely not feasible, but I wonder if there could be some way to get around this by only fetching posts on demand + some top posts for the feed, and not always fetching from instances directly but instead setting up some torrent-like distributed caching system where instances can automatically discover peers to serve them cryptographically signed copies of the content.