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.
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.
The better question is, how will lemmy survive if instances get too big. The whole point of the fediverse is to prevent centralization.
IMO we need self-imposed regulations that are community enforced. In the context of user count, the community should decide on an appropriate max active user count. Each instance should deactivate signups if they’re over the limit, and if they refuse, other instances should defederate them until they do. In general I’m not a fan of defederation, but I also don’t think we should defederate threads just because it’s owned by Meta. It should be defederated because it’s behavior is anti-fediverse.