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?

  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Sounds good as long as it doesn’t provide an incentive to pay for posts or comments to rise to visibility because then there’ll just be advertising everywhere

    • pproe@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes I agree.

      One alternative is something similar to awards on reddit. However one could argue that it would impact the visibility of awarded posts by making them more ‘eye-catching’. The only way such a system would not impact post/comment visibility is if it is a private transfer of value.