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.

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

    Is that really so though? Assuming some small percentage of the user base chooses to donate, would that not scale as the instance gets larger, as long as the percentage stays about the same?

    I decided to toss something like a buck a month at my instance as I came with the reddit migration and didn’t want to be a part of the problem. I also appreciate the ad-free space we have here on lemmy.

    And it’s not like running a PBS station or something in terms of costs. I’m actually pretty optimistic about the donation model, though maybe you’re right? Maybe the optimism is misplaced?