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for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Acetamide@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

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[-] Bautznersenf@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

How is lemmy financed? Someone still needs to pay for servers, right?

[-] Whitt@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is opensource, you can see and get a copy of the source code here. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy There's no development cost because all developers are volunteers at this stage.

For each instance that depends on the admins running that individual instance. The instance I use is being sponsored by a NZ company that are providing the admin's a free virtual server to host on.

[-] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but that means it's going to split communities up between servers. So there won't be a mass exodus like reddit, just a handful of communities at a time (if needed).

[-] SterlingVapor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nah, that's where the federation comes in. The tech has a lot of room to grow, but you never have to move to join the "winning" group for a topic - you just have to sub

Moving forward, there's already talk about how/if you should reconcile overly similar groups across servers. It's certainly possible, and discovery is definitely going to improve quickly - the only question is can Lemmy hold onto the new users long enough to get past the growing pains

[-] Domiku@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Each instance is responsible for their own server costs. Many accept donations!

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