I’m really enjoying lemmy. I think we’ve got some growing pains in UI/UX and we’re missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn’t going to be free. Can someone with actual server experience chime in with some back of the napkin math on how expensive it would be if everyone migrated from Reddit?
In general, Fedi admins simply close registrations when they can’t keep up with an influx of new users, and point people to other, smaller instances
Closing registrations is all well and good, but can’t activity / load still skyrocket as users from federated instances subscribe to, comment on, and post to their communities?
It will, but Lemmy is fairly light, so I doubt it will be critical. Fedi is about community, so in case of load problems people will crowd fund existing servers and host new ones