Dr. Santa

In a normal, nonfederated site, sure. But when you throw instances on top of it, it gets a bit more complex.

On another note, I don’t believe we’re gonna get a lot of people coming here who aren’t redditors.

Family Guy.

Yeah, “community” is kinda bland.

And I feel it has the potential to make newbies confused with instance.

Or maybe nonprofit organizations. Though I’m having a harder time imagining why they’d need a social network site, especially if it’s federated with our shit posting “sublemmies” or whatever we’re calling them here.

Unfortunately, the reality is that it may become necessary.

Donations can be a saving grace if enough people donate regularly. But such is dependent on people’s willingness, their own financial stability, and how stressed servers are (how much it’ll cost to upgrade and/or maintain infrastructure.)

It’s great if it’s viable. Means there’s less outside influence. But that’s if.

As far as I’m aware, Wikipedia has been able to maintain it purely off donations. But I’m not sure if Lemmy could.

Maybe? One thing Lemmy does have going for it is that the majority of users seem to be aware how… Fragile? the fediverses can be. There’s arguably more passion behind the users and maybe willing to throw support out.

But hard to say.

If nothing else you struck my curiosity.