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’d love hosting a chunk on my anyways online Linux box (and if it was easy I could put up another junk box or two (like i3-i5 8GB 256GB-512GB/1-4TB) if it fits on a 1Gb ethernet line, but I admit I don’t have the time (/energy) for all the stuff around (I’d do backups) especially if the hardware breaks or there are troll infestations etc.
Before the whole world migrates to Lemmy, maybe we could hold on by teaming up in some way.
Maybe my shard should be about doing just that, and hopefully people wanting to set up ‘lemmys’ could gather and share experiences and help.
Thoughts?