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?

  • nwithan8@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    100GB is practically nothing nowadays.

    There are people (myself included, not to brag) running home servers with literally hundreds of terabytes of data. At that ~0.3 GB/day number, I alone could host 3,500 years worth of data. Get some of those r/DataHoarders and r/HomeLab guys on here and Lemmy would never run out of space.

    • Corkyskog
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      2 years ago

      That is just one instance and that is a small amount of users. Reddit has 430 million active monthly users. Let’s say 1% move over to Lemmy. According to the 4 GB per 22 days (with ~1k users per instance) for Lemmy.world, that would mean you would need 1.6 Terrabytes of storage per day to support that 1% of users. Of course this would be spread over a number of instances… but you can start to see where the problem lies…