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?

  • Austin-Philp@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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!

    • FaceDeer@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Oh, nice. I was hoping I’d see something like this, it’s an open protocol so complete alternative implementations to accomplish Reddit-like functionality is great. Nobody can rest on their laurels or assume that they get to decide what features are allowed.

    • orbit@beehaw.org
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      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
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        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
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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.

          • themadcodger@kbin.social
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            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.

    • Outsider@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      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