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?

    • Austin-Philp
      6•2 years ago

      Currently commenting this from kbin - honestly I love it, much more flexible than Lemmy, you can still use all Lemmy content and you can access Mastadon through it!

      • @[email protected]
        3•2 years ago

        You may have just convinced me to try it out. A few questions though: Does it have any limitations when accessing content on other Fediverse clients? Like anything goofy when looking at lemmy content for instance? Second is there an Android app available you could recommend? Third, what instances are cool to start with?

        • themadcodger
          4•2 years ago

          I’ve pretty much only been using Kbin instead of Lemmy and I really haven’t run into any problems. The dev just fixed the weird thing where upvotes here did nothing on Lemmy, you had to favorite it instead. But that’s gone after users requested it.

          There isn’t a native app yet but one is in development (near the bottom). It is a newer platform compared to Lemmy (same as Calckey compared to mastodon) but personally I like the UI better. Plus the native integration to mastodon is nice. I’ve been using it as a PWA for the time being and haven’t had any real issues, but I’m waiting for an app as well 😅

          Being new, I’m on the main instance kbin.social. It’s still small and there aren’t many instances yet. Hopefully that will change. But nice thing about the fediverse is you can try it out and see what fits for you. Hell, you could join Friendica (FB equivalent) and access this content there if that floats your boat. So give it a try and see what you like!

          • @[email protected]
            2•2 years ago

            Alright you convinced me and I made an account. I love that it more effectively interfaces with the rest of the fediverse. Is there a better search function though? I’d love to follow some official Mastodon users like Reuters or Ars Technica but the main search doesn’t let me filter for specifics.

            • themadcodger
              2•2 years ago

              At this stage in development, things aren’t quite robust yet. That said, much like email where you have to know someone’s address before you can add them, it’s a bit like that here.

              If you search for @arstechnica@mastodon.social it’ll show up and you can follow them from kbin. Same process for communities on Lemmy.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        Oh, nice. I was hoping I’d see something like this, it’s an open protocol so complete alternative implementations to accomplish Reddit-like functionality is great. Nobody can rest on their laurels or assume that they get to decide what features are allowed.

      • Outsider
        2•2 years ago

        One thing I’m wondering about is, how to discover kbin instances? There’s a spot on the website to encourage people to create their own instances, but how do people find them? I mean if the developer is able to fund to keep his own website open then I guess it doesn’t matter, but I assume if he’s encouraging people to create their own instances it might be worthwhile to have people be able to find these instances.

        Edit: Found it. I had looked all over the website for something to show what instances it was federated with (like how Lemmy has it on the bottom) but I couldn’t find it, but I clicked on dev’s kbin account and its in his profile.

        https://the-federation.info/platform/184

        • themadcodger
          2•2 years ago

          Yeah, that is one thing to consider, but kbin is much newer than Lemmy, so has some things to work out still. But that said I’ve had no problems with it so far.

          edit Forgot to mention, instances are mentioned on the official website.

    • Kaldo
      -2•2 years ago

      That’s been my journey so far, I first joined beehaw because I like the community but after reading more about lemmy, admins and lemmygrad it gave me a really sour taste in my mouth. Glad to have found kbin as an alternative with the same design idea, hopefully the recent popularity boost helps the development in the long term.

      • elight
        -8•2 years ago

        Oh, I’m wrong. I appear to be sort of banned but with no notification or warning. I can see the content here when no authenticated. When I authenticate, I see no comments on this post. Cute. And lousy moderation.

        • @[email protected]
          12•2 years ago

          I love it when people get banned but somehow they’re still commenting on the same post which got them banned with absolutely no problems. Sounds like a very real ban.

        • @MBM
          7•2 years ago

          That sounds more like a bug than anything intentional, since all your comments are still here

      • elight
        -11•2 years ago

        Yet our messages were removed from the thread.

        Seems to make my point for me. They’re hiding who they are.

    • mstrbtr
      -14•2 years ago

      Jesus this got massdownvoted by Lemmy tankies! xD Luckily there isn’t the same impact on Kbin when viewing the OG comment.

      • fruitywelsh
        20•2 years ago

        Down voted because if the code is good, then you can fork it if the maintainers really get out of hand. I’m very opposed to the CCP personally.

        • mstrbtr
          -2•2 years ago

          From the information in the OG reply it seems pretty out of hand to me though, which makes the switch to Kbin that much easier as it’s just plain better, and have full functionality to interact with microblogs. If Lemmy was the only one it would makes sense to fork it if needed, but now we have like 3 reddit-like fediverse platforms that we can choose between.

          • Kichae
            7•2 years ago

            We should encourage more, frankly. Misskey has exploded in forks, and it’s meant good things.

            So long as they’re interoperable, the diversity in experiences is good for all of us.

            • mstrbtr
              4•2 years ago

              It is called lotide. You can read about it here https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/ , I guess there is also a 4th one called prismo, but the developer put down their project for various reasons, so i don’t count it in.

              • Kichae
                4•2 years ago

                And Friendica has full groups support, AFAIK, so it functions like an inverse kbin, focusing the microblogging but giving full group access.

              • themadcodger
                1•2 years ago

                Oh that’s right. I remember seeing it at one point but immediately dismissing it because of the interface. I could see how that would apply to some, but I’m definitely more of a kbin/Calckey kind of guy.