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?
I’m not a programmer, but do you have something called an API? You could probably charge fees for that.
We hereby charge all users of lemmy seventy-billion dollars per GET request.
charge 10 doge per upvote
We think that’s a fair price! You just need to optimize your shit, garbage, utterly useless piece of crap app to not SUCK so much!
Great idea! Surely you could just charge, oh I don’t know, $20 million a year for it? That would easily cover operating costs and so much more!