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How is Lemmy going to make money? (lemmy.ml)
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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?

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[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 2 points 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.