First post, honest question.

Who will pay for lemmy? There were a few sites that started sometime back because they were fed up with something about reddit but eventually they all crashed because they had no funds. How will lemmy be different?

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    That could absolutely happen.

    At the end of the day it’s up to the community.

    If they don’t like that they don’t sign up to that instance. If other instances don’t like it they defederate.

    It’s the beauty of federation.

    I imagine most will end up running on donations.

    We may even end up with multiple hives of defederated instances that take different approaches.

    • @sorenant
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      With the LemmyPHP frontend we could even go back to small pockets of forums.