I’m fairly new and don’t 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?

Especially with the influx of new users. Hardware upgrades are needed.

  • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]
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    501 year ago

    There will probably eventually be some commercial Lemmy sites. I honestly think it would be awesome if large game studios, and software companies, and anyone else who has need for a forum, made their own federated Lemmy instances as their official support forums.

    • @InsertD1sk
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      111 year ago

      Man I’d never considered anything like that, but being able to see activity across multiple official forums at the same time. That’d be amazing

    • @wosat
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      11 year ago

      That’s a really great idea. Makes a lot more sense than relying on official accounts on 3rd party platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook.