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?
like the rest of the Fediverse: through ingeniosity, community and self-organization!
(understanding “make money” as “pay for its infrastructure and maybe for some dev and other of the essential work now ran by volunteers” not as “profit”)