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?

  • pancake@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well, it’s working right now, isn’t it? If the load increases n times and donations also increase n times, it will keep working just fine.

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      1 year ago

      The big migration hasn’t happened yet. There’s going to be a big spike in new users during the blackout, and then again when Apollo shuts down.