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EDIT: we just crossed 30K 🥳


We are now at 28.5K users (see https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). The top 10 instances also got a decent boost in user count. With the exception of beehaw.org which defederated, the Fediverse is thriving 🔥

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[–] Rairii@haqueers.com 25 points 1 year ago (16 children)

@AlmightySnoo fediverse is supposed to scale with more servers, not bigger servers

[–] corytheboyd@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Rather, more instances, not servers. An instance can scale out using as many servers as the owner can tolerate.

I certainly wouldn’t want to be the one managing a horizontally scaled fediverse instance on a cloud platform though, that shit adds up fast, and no way in hell is anyone going to donate here.

I honestly don’t get how that’s supposed to work indefinitely, that’s usually where ad money comes in and… god dammit we’re back to square one lol. I’m here for a good time, not a long time 😎

[–] econpol@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need a charity running this, like Wikipedia or Internet archive.

[–] Rairii@haqueers.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@econpol @corytheboyd i wonder what makes anybody think nobody will donate, quite a few fedi servers manage to survive off of donations

i think a couple of fedi servers are semi-private with paid accounts on a subscription basis, too

[–] corytheboyd@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Mostly the pessimist in me talking about the general case. Getting many people to pay for something that is free somewhere else is an uphill battle.

When the service is good enough, I don’t at all mind throwing in ~$5/month. Example services like that I pay for: Fastmail, Bitwarden, Mullvad

Doesn’t mean it can’t work, and success is much easier at small scale (like you said, paid private).

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