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?
I run a website that I pay for out of pocket. It’s not super expensive and it’s a hobby of mine, so I don’t really mind.
The infrastructure I pay for wouldn’t be able to handle thousands of users simultaneously, but it could easily handle a few dozen or a couple hundred people simultaneously.
I’m considering setting up a kbin/lemmy instance specifically for my niche interest (fencing). Across the English speaking internet, there isn’t that large a regular online community, and I think the infrastructure would be affordable for one person out-of-pocket, as a hobby - maybe with a few donations once a year.
If every small community had someone doing something like this, it would basically self-solve