Reddit migrator here (shocking, I know)
Just wondering because I found out about all this yesterday and just realized the ammount of independent servers, but no sign of any ads or sponsors. So… is it all based on donations?
Also don’t just lurk, if you know you should answer because lemmy only counts users who posted or commented as active users.
As long as it remains federated, you can access the content of one instance from another, so why would I keep using an ad-infested instance if I can access the exact same content from another instance? And if said instance decides to unfederate itself it means that every user that was coming from another instance will have to re-register, which not everyone will be willing to do. This can only happen if a single instance grows so big that it doesn’t need “support” from other instances anymore. I hope that never happens tbh, I don’t want another /u/spez ever.