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?
I suspect reddit’s reported uprofitablity isn’t due to the cost of hosting, but from blowing money in other ways.
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.
Hookers and blow, right? It’s always hookers and blow