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?

  • redditors_re_racist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    Wikipedia is set up as a nonprofit. They have annual fundraising drives asking their users for money. They also have an endowment and receive grants.

    when you donate money, you’re not funding wikipedia’s operating costs. wikipedia itself is self sufficient. what you’re funding instead is the wikimedia foundation- which is set up to not receive grants but to give them.

    the drives are misleading, to say the least

    • Debs@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      If it is not funded through user donations, how is it self sufficient? Genuinely curious.

    • Lexam@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Wish they would be more upfront about it. Wouldn’t have a problem donating to fund grants. But I want to know upfront.