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?
Currently commenting this from kbin - honestly I love it, much more flexible than Lemmy, you can still use all Lemmy content and you can access Mastadon through it!
One thing I’m wondering about is, how to discover kbin instances? There’s a spot on the website to encourage people to create their own instances, but how do people find them? I mean if the developer is able to fund to keep his own website open then I guess it doesn’t matter, but I assume if he’s encouraging people to create their own instances it might be worthwhile to have people be able to find these instances.
Edit: Found it. I had looked all over the website for something to show what instances it was federated with (like how Lemmy has it on the bottom) but I couldn’t find it, but I clicked on dev’s kbin account and its in his profile.
https://the-federation.info/platform/184
Kbin has a site similar to join-lemmy.org on https://kbin.pub