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How are we going to pay for all this? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by psylancer@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A “transfer my community” feature that allowed an entire community to be moved between instances would certainly help. That’s a great idea.

From what I’ve seen so far looking through the Postgres db, every instance has data from most other instances. I see users in my local Postgres db from other instances. So, theoretically moving a community from one instance to another could be as simple as changing a few values in the database. Of course in practice it’s never that simple. 😀

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it require changing all those values in the database of all instances with subscribers to that community?

[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good question. I don’t know. Hypothetically speaking, if the parent instance of the community changes the relevant data in the database to another instance, would federation take over and automatically propagate the change? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sounds like an interesting experiment at least, or a possible major bug waiting to happen.