How are lemmy and other fediverse platforms profitable?
Reddit migrator here (shocking, I know)
Just wondering because I found out about all this yesterday and just realized the ammount of independent servers, but no sign of any ads or sponsors.
So... is it all based on donations?
Also don't just lurk, if you know you should answer because lemmy only counts users who posted or commented as active users.
This has come up multiple times in recent weeks, naturally, but it's interesting that it's always framed as being about profitability. As if simply being affordable or sustainable isn't enough.
Communities being a source of free value for the server admin is always baked into the discussion.
Centralized, corporate social media has done... bad things for how we see and interact with the world.