It’s brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

If you’ve been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they’re excited about the idea. I’ve really enjoyed reading through them :)

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Do you really think Lemmy could handle the amount of people that Reddit has?

    yup. no question. Not one instance mind you, but Reddit is also a giant cluster. (and clusterfuck)

    As far as I know the existing instances are usually running on capacity and always in need of donations,

    We just need the big bois to stop stuffing themselves. There’s 0 reason to have 2/3 of the totally traffic flooding into world because people are scared of Federation that they never even have to deal with.

    Maybe Lemmy would benefit of some way to get people to pay, such as purchasing the ability to give people awards etc.

    Maybe we make some premium pay servers with baller architecture, killer response time, user capacity limits and high speed storage?

    But the point is that without a business model, the Fediverse will only be able to handle a limited number of enthusiasts before it faces scaling problems.

    Eventually, it’s going to be ads, donations or payments. It’s all someone else’s computer, someone has to foot the bill. But at great scale, you should be able to have an ad-free experience for something in the range a dollar or two a month.

    • Balder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      I wouldn’t mind having some ads, but I wonder how some more extremists users would react.

      But I strongly believe that depending on donations is a very tough place to be, it places the burden of “begging” on the instance owners, which are already doing all the work and should definitely be compensated somehow.

    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      It costs me less than $10/mo to run mine and some of that is because I have to pay for an email forwarder until my hosting provider lets me start sending emails, part of that is factoring the cost of the domain name. The actual cloud server costs $5/mo right now.