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?

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    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.

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      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.