this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
92 points (96.9% liked)

General Discussion

1 readers
2 users here now

Want something to discuss? Post it here

Follow instance rules, be decent human being...

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
92
Who will pay for lemmy? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
49 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

First post, honest question.

Who will pay for lemmy? There were a few sites that started sometime back because they were fed up with something about reddit but eventually they all crashed because they had no funds. How will lemmy be different?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The problem with Voat was it was attempting to be a single platform that hosted everyone. That meant a single group of people were footing the bill for every user on the platform.

Lemmy instances can be hosted for as little as $5/month plus the annual cost of your domain name. This decentralized nature means it's much easier for a single user or even group of users to sustainably fund their instance. And since everything is federated by default, all of those small instances are making contributions to the larger platform that is the threadiverse and larger fediverse.