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’ve thought about contributing to lemmy because a built in decentralized hosting/backup solution would be ideal. Add in some heavy sandboxing and the more advanced users could donate their hardware usage to their favourite instance (ideally with ease) - then the load could even be broken up per instance, and it’d pretty much gaurentee the info will never be lost to time because anyone can host a backup