this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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Having said that, is it really the end of the world if large Lemmy instances have ads to make up for any shortfall in donations? Otherwise, how are large instances expected to be sustainable long term, especially if they're going to ever reach the kinds of traffic Reddit sees?

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[โ€“] Izzy@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No single instance should get to the size of 100 million users if we are doing federation correctly.

So if the ideal Lemmy structure is a large number of medium sized instances, would you say there should be a mechanism (either at the API level or handled by clients) to randomly select a general purpose instance at sign up?