Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.
Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.
So, welcome reddit expats!
8k user instance owner requires 200$ per month to cover server cost. that should 2000$ per month for lemmy.world..and counting
So it is theoretically possible to keep the boat afloat with less than one dollar per user.
Do you know if costs scale linearly with user count?
just a wild a guess. will it should be more dependant on bandwidth and traffic than users. posters on c/cats are more demanding than posters of c/news in terms of ressources and bandwidth. text is lightweight compared to image oe gifs.
For sure. Larger userbase also increases likelihood of more and bigger donors, however, so the critical question is whether that revenue increases at a higher or lower rate than server costs.
Wow I had no idea it was so high! I gotta get into the hosting business.
Lemmy's gonna have some apps, but I can't wait until Kbin has an app too! Been really liking this so far.
But lemmy.world shows me many errors if I open DevTools.. Hope this failures get resolved soon. Had to create another account on another instance to use lemmy
But lemmy.world shows me many errors if I open DevTools.. Hope this failures get resolved soon. Had to create another account on another instance to use lemmy
Glad to be here - and thank you to all of you who've been building this place so we had somewhere to go!
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