A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
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Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.
Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.
So, welcome reddit expats!
I used Redact to edit out all my Reddit posts and deleted my accounts when Apollo died. Bring on the distributed communities! (Also this is weird and new and I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing, but it's exciting!)
8k user instance owner requires 200$ per month to cover server cost. that should 2000$ per month for lemmy.world..and counting
So it is theoretically possible to keep the boat afloat with less than one dollar per user.
per month, yea i assume so
Do you know if costs scale linearly with user count?
just a wild a guess. will it should be more dependant on bandwidth and traffic than users. posters on c/cats are more demanding than posters of c/news in terms of ressources and bandwidth. text is lightweight compared to image or gifs.
Wow I had no idea it was so high! I gotta get into the hosting business.
That is Good.
It would be better if those users were more dispersed across more similarly moderated instances, but it is for sure a good thing that the threadiverse is expanding
Lemmy's gonna have some apps, but I can't wait until Kbin has an app too! Been really liking this so far.
Glad to be here - and thank you to all of you who've been building this place so we had somewhere to go!