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?
While both HW and power gets cheaper (in the grand scheme of things), the consumption of natural resources does not. Data centers that run everything you do online consume a lot of power. That does not mean you need to stay offline or else the planet dies, but IMO, everyone should keep it in mind.