If the reddit exodus happens and Lemmy gets even 2% of reddit’s daily active users, how will Lemmy sustain the increased traffic? I know donations are an option, but I don’t think long term donations will be sustainable. Most users will never donate.
I know the goal of Lemmy isn’t to make money, but I know that servers and storage costs add up quickly. Not to mention the development costs.
I would love to hear the plans for how to offset those costs in the future?
But are users going to donate to both the instance(s) they’re using, and the Lemmy devs?
Will a regular ordinary non-technical user even know to do this?
Or would it be the responsibility of the instance admins to forward part of their donations to the Lemmy project?