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?

  • orbit@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    You may have just convinced me to try it out. A few questions though: Does it have any limitations when accessing content on other Fediverse clients? Like anything goofy when looking at lemmy content for instance? Second is there an Android app available you could recommend? Third, what instances are cool to start with?

    • themadcodger@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ve pretty much only been using Kbin instead of Lemmy and I really haven’t run into any problems. The dev just fixed the weird thing where upvotes here did nothing on Lemmy, you had to favorite it instead. But that’s gone after users requested it.

      There isn’t a native app yet but one is in development (near the bottom). It is a newer platform compared to Lemmy (same as Calckey compared to mastodon) but personally I like the UI better. Plus the native integration to mastodon is nice. I’ve been using it as a PWA for the time being and haven’t had any real issues, but I’m waiting for an app as well 😅

      Being new, I’m on the main instance kbin.social. It’s still small and there aren’t many instances yet. Hopefully that will change. But nice thing about the fediverse is you can try it out and see what fits for you. Hell, you could join Friendica (FB equivalent) and access this content there if that floats your boat. So give it a try and see what you like!

      • orbit@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        Alright you convinced me and I made an account. I love that it more effectively interfaces with the rest of the fediverse. Is there a better search function though? I’d love to follow some official Mastodon users like Reuters or Ars Technica but the main search doesn’t let me filter for specifics.

        • themadcodger@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          At this stage in development, things aren’t quite robust yet. That said, much like email where you have to know someone’s address before you can add them, it’s a bit like that here.

          If you search for @arstechnica@mastodon.social it’ll show up and you can follow them from kbin. Same process for communities on Lemmy.