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So how does lemmy make money? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not seeing any ads, and these servers certainly have a cost.... So is this place entirely donation based, or what?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lemmy isn't a company, it's just the software. The devs develop it as a hobby, basically.

Your server is lemmy.world. It's unclear how it will be funded as it gets big. If it goes under someone will start another one, though.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Actually- they are full time working on this.

The devs... have socialist tendencies(by their own admission, their words, not mine!), and are more then happy to live on peanuts and bread while building software for the better of humanity.

However, donations to the project, do pay for their basic expenses.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's impressive! Not many open-source developers don't need a full-time gig.

IIRC they're openly Marxists-Leninists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha don’t need to treat socialism like a taboo, there’s more to the world than the US and laissez-faire capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I understand- I took that part from one of the dev's bios.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

https://join-lemmy.org/donate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

they have been funded by grants from NLnet (I think from EU funds?) but I think are transitioning to donation-based.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world and it is already donation funded. They post financial updates on their blog: https://blog.mastodon.world/