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How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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It is possible to estimate?

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is true but aren't the two main Lemmy devs paid to work on this full-time? That's something at least, it's better than being truly unpaid to work on this.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Devs do get donations but instances are not able to host advertisements. This means that if any hobbyists hosts a popular server instance they have to pay out of pocket to keep it going.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Instances could in principle run on ad revenue but I rather doubt that will happen given that enough users are willing to donate. Injecting some code into the frontend you serve isn't rocket science.

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