This comment was very helpful when I first joined. Long story short, each server is locally storing data for its own users and communities, and also for external communities that at least one user is subscribed to.
Everything is either self or donor funded, and it is my understanding that this model can scale quite a bit without a crazy amount of donations.
But if we get into instances with over a million users, I’m not sure when/if the donor funded model eventually breaks down. That’ll be a good problem to have though, because it means this platform will have been a massive success.
Meta doesn’t get to decide. We do. That’s what I love so much about Lemmy.
The day this instance federates with Meta is the day I leave. They, and any other big corporations, can fuck all the way off. We have seen where that path leads time and time again.
Hi from Lemmy! I hadn’t been able to federate here before and my comments weren’t showing up but now it’s working.
I didn’t know about all that WOTC was doing to DnD but I am familiar with them because I used to play Heroscape. That’s absolutely fucked and you have my sympathy.
The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.
