Having said that, is it really the end of the world if large Lemmy instances have ads to make up for any shortfall in donations? Otherwise, how are large instances expected to be sustainable long term, especially if they’re going to ever reach the kinds of traffic Reddit sees?
@newtraditionalists
Keep in mind that with the way the ActivityPub protocol was designed, more small instances end up taking up more resources and are more costly to run overall than larger ones.
Resource requirements scale with number of instances, not number of users.
@spiritedpause