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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[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 11 months ago

You mean say I have an instance with 100 users.

If they all hang out on communities on the server (more or less), no problemo at all.

But if they all roam around and sign up on thousands of active communities on other servers, my server will be under water.

I love thinking about stuff like this (P=NP, complexity, etc) and I do not see very much about that concerning the lemmyverse which is IMO a shame.

I'm planning setting up a Lemmy build so I can tinker around with it, but you know, time and stuff. I also spent a lot of time just setting up the docker version so maybe it's quite the job :-)

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