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How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by s0phia@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I know there's donations and the owners can use their own money, but there's a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

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[-] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To give you an idea, Beehaw’s annual costs are around $12,000: https://opencollective.com/beehaw. AFAIK they have been able to sustain that with donations. Beehaw has around 12,000 users, 4200 of those active per month: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

[-] henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you are confusing budget with cost. If you look at their expenses you can see that it's not even close so far.

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