I’m really enjoying lemmy. I think we’ve got some growing pains in UI/UX and we’re missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn’t going to be free. Can someone with actual server experience chime in with some back of the napkin math on how expensive it would be if everyone migrated from Reddit?

  • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t it require changing all those values in the database of all instances with subscribers to that community?

    • Slashzero@hakbox.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Good question. I don’t know. Hypothetically speaking, if the parent instance of the community changes the relevant data in the database to another instance, would federation take over and automatically propagate the change? 🤷🏻‍♂️

      Sounds like an interesting experiment at least, or a possible major bug waiting to happen.