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How are we going to pay for all this? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by psylancer@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm really enjoying lemmy. I think we've got some growing pains in UI/UX and we're missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn't going to be free. Can someone with actual server experience chime in with some back of the napkin math on how expensive it would be if everyone migrated from Reddit?

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[–] ehrenschwan@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given that lemmy is an OSS project and decentralized, it draws a lot of people with knowledge and resources. You could easily host your own instance for your friends, to have them connect to other instances. And i think there are enough people in these communities that have some left over server resources to host their own instances.

[–] Kapitel42@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got an old server from work sitting around at home doing nothing. Seriously thinking about hosting my own instance on it

[–] Xeon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Does your work also have some solar panels laying around for you?