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Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

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[–] Vohki -2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I feel bad for the lemmy.world admins that have to keep up with the software needed and costs accrued to handle the world knocking on their doorstep. I hope advertisers hit them up soon so their bills become easier to pay. While advertising was annoying on reddit, I'm more than willing to put up with it on this instance of lemmy, the admins have earned it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Please just donate... No need to invite ads here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Unfortunately, the reality is that it may become necessary.

Donations can be a saving grace if enough people donate regularly. But such is dependent on people's willingness, their own financial stability, and how stressed servers are (how much it'll cost to upgrade and/or maintain infrastructure.)

It's great if it's viable. Means there's less outside influence. But that's if.

As far as I'm aware, Wikipedia has been able to maintain it purely off donations. But I'm not sure if Lemmy could.

Maybe? One thing Lemmy does have going for it is that the majority of users seem to be aware how... Fragile? the fediverses can be. There's arguably more passion behind the users and maybe willing to throw support out.

But hard to say.

[–] Vohki 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wikipedia is able to pull that off because wikipedia is a digital encyclopedia, not a social forum to add comments to or respond at a massive scale like lemmy is or reddit was. A majority of services either get their revenue from ads, or they start off not doing that but eventually have to cave in and let ads in.

I think ads can be annoying sometimes, but if they're done in a similar way reddit did them before their downfall, then it would be tolerable and at least give the lemmy.world admins enough money to cover server running costs

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