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I mean I could be completely wrong but I think thatโs where federation actually comes out on top. Look at Reddit, apparently still not even profitable. However if someone on Lemmy owns an instance and infrastructure costs get too high they can stop new communities and users from joining until they get more money through donations or whatever ways people come up with sourcing income.
Again though, this could all be completely wrong and misled but thatโs what I think at least.
Yet they spent millions on the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight controversies for a start.
I'm not sure how scalable Lemmy is, like from what I read it still has a big OLTP database per instance at some point. It'd be nice if it could be come super-cheap to run even if that means opting out of image hosting, etc. on some instances.
I didn't necessarily think about some of the overhead that your comment brought up when I made mine. I like your idea about opting out of some features on certain instances and I think that makes sense for quite a few users/communities/instance hosters.