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?

  • seaduck@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I suspect reddit’s reported uprofitablity isn’t due to the cost of hosting, but from blowing money in other ways.

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      1 year ago

      Back in the day, Reddit used to show how much of their server costs were being covered by Reddit gold revenue alone. It was basically always enough to cover daily usage.

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      1 year ago

      We don’t even know for a fact if they are truly unprofitable or not, it’s not like anyone here has reviewed their books.

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        No, but it would be extra stupid for Spez to say that if it weren’t true because it could affect investments and draw legal action.

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        1 year ago

        Which they could have locked behind Reddit Gold or some pay-tier. /shrug