Is Lemmy as a platform sustainable? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by Portbane@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I’m wondering how are all those different Lemmy instances financed? I know some rely on donations, but is that all and is that sustainable?

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[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Until you get into image/video/file hosting, it's very cheap. So long as people are ok with off-site storage usage, then it shouldn't cost much at all.

Merch is a pretty big risk, or at least was when I was doing it for bands. I know there are solutions for on demand creation now that might be more feasible

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Honestly the images aren't TOO bad, or not as bad as you'd think. I have 160GB right now and pay less than $2/mo for it.

Of course with more active users that'll scale quickly at which point I'd probably tighten up on the upload limits.

I'm also using Cloudflare R2, I could move to something like Backblaze (which I already use for backups) and could possibly lower that.

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