How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big?
How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big?
I know there's donations and the owners can use their own money, but there's a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.
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I run a lemmy server and its actually very hard to encourage people to sign up and use the server as they have to resubscribe to their communities manually or with a script and people just dont want to do it for basically very little gain for themselves individually even if when hundreds of people do it collectively it helps reduce load on popular servers. Its kind of like the climate change issue. One person doing it on their own doesnt change much and incurs a lot of work so why bother? Even if it is true that 1000 people moving would make a measurable difference.
Https://lemmy.myserv.one if you do want to join, however.
Hopefully they will implement export and import of subscribed communities soon to make relocation easier.
I know it's not user friendly, but this script exists: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate#migrate-your-subscribed-lemmy-communities-from-one-account-to-another