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Who will pay for lemmy? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First post, honest question.

Who will pay for lemmy? There were a few sites that started sometime back because they were fed up with something about reddit but eventually they all crashed because they had no funds. How will lemmy be different?

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[–] Thitherwards 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So I'm reading all answers here, and one thing come to mind - it's seems like it inevitable, that bunch of rich guys gonna host some of the most populated instances, if Fediverse get traction? For purpose of advertising, self promoting and all that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That could absolutely happen.

At the end of the day it's up to the community.

If they don't like that they don't sign up to that instance. If other instances don't like it they defederate.

It's the beauty of federation.

I imagine most will end up running on donations.

We may even end up with multiple hives of defederated instances that take different approaches.

[–] sorenant 3 points 1 year ago

With the LemmyPHP frontend we could even go back to small pockets of forums.

[–] sorenant 2 points 1 year ago

They don't really depend on Lemmy to do that.