How can the fediverse scale and grow to large communities like Reddit without large infrastructure and servers? How can a non-profit driven platform afford to keep the lights on if this takes off?

KillaBeez@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

How can the fediverse scale and grow to large communities like Reddit without large infrastructure and servers? How can a non-profit driven platform afford to keep the lights on if this takes off?

nivenkos@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Look at Reddit, apparently still not even profitable.

Yet they spent millions on the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight controversies for a start.

I’m not sure how scalable Lemmy is, like from what I read it still has a big OLTP database per instance at some point. It’d be nice if it could be come super-cheap to run even if that means opting out of image hosting, etc. on some instances.