can we say that it is insanely cheap?
for an online platform competing with the big social media companies a total of less than 500 per month is nothing.
want to know the cost per active user per month and compare when Reddit and Facebook overhead.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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That's specifically development funding. The hosting cost/funding is separate on an instance by instance basis, most likely the majority of funding comes from whoever owns/operates the instance.
you're forgetting about hosting, administration, and moderation! Don't forget to donate to your instance folks
Wow that makes the pace of new feature development all the more striking.
It's pretty normal for new software to have a fast pace of new feature development, and for software that has established itself somewhat to have slower pace. Especially as fast pace means accumulating tech debt that you have to work on later
Yeah. One is written in python and the other in Rust for example.
Yea, Python has a tendency to be fast to work on at the start, but once the system reaches a certain level of complexity, it gets unwieldy... Rust doesn't run into the same problem, but takes a bit more up-front work on the small scale. At least that is my experience working with both professionally.
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Now calculate the donations per active user and the difference becomes very small.
41425 MAU/$4250.39 = 9.74.../$1
1629 MAU/$60.86 = 26,76.../$1
But.... That is the exact opposite of what the comment asked for assuming your numbers are correct:
4250,39 $ ÷ 41425 MAU = 0,1026 $/MAU 60,86 $ ÷ 1629 MAU = 0,0374 $/MAU
Both of those things demonstrate the same point:
Lemmy has more funding per user (or, similarly, fewer users per dollar) by a large margin
Turns out the difference did not, in fact, become very small
Can I make a one-time donation?
One-time donations aren't properly supported yet, but you can discontinue your donation immediately after initiating the first payment.
You can do one-time donations via Liberapay. Just select the option to be reminded to renew instead of automatically renewing. You'll get an email that reminds you to renew when the time is up, but you can just ignore it.
Kofi accepts one time donations.
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Warms my heart that people clearly care so much about keeping Lemmy going 😁
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The Lemmy money is spread across 3 devs or so? And they have been writing it since 2018 or something. It's not surprising that they have more momentum and name recognition.
PieFed is new and on Codeberg. Especially the Codeberg thing, I like. It does lack a CI though. How stable is it?
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Rimu really needs to hustle these days.
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