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?
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.socialit’ll show up and you can follow them from kbin. Same process for communities on Lemmy.