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How can the fediverse scale and grow to large communities like Reddit without large infrastructure and servers? How can a non-profit driven platform afford to keep the lights on if this takes off? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at Reddit, apparently still not even profitable.

Yet they spent millions on the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight controversies for a start.

I'm not sure how scalable Lemmy is, like from what I read it still has a big OLTP database per instance at some point. It'd be nice if it could be come super-cheap to run even if that means opting out of image hosting, etc. on some instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't necessarily think about some of the overhead that your comment brought up when I made mine. I like your idea about opting out of some features on certain instances and I think that makes sense for quite a few users/communities/instance hosters.