If the reddit exodus happens and Lemmy gets even 2% of reddit’s daily active users, how will Lemmy sustain the increased traffic? I know donations are an option, but I don’t think long term donations will be sustainable. Most users will never donate.

I know the goal of Lemmy isn’t to make money, but I know that servers and storage costs add up quickly. Not to mention the development costs.

I would love to hear the plans for how to offset those costs in the future?

  • Riley@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    There are more Mastodon instances now than ever before. Even though the active user count has been a pretty flat line for a few months now the number of new servers continues to increase week to week.

    • zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Is there a link where I can see the mastodon numbers? New to fediverse and interested in knowing whats happening with mastodon.

      • Riley@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        https://fediverse.observer/stats and @fediverse@mastodont.cat If you’re interested in hearing more about Fediverse stuff then @atomicpoet@calckey.social and @rysiek@mstdn.social write political stuff about it fairly often.