I know there’s donations and the owners can use their own money, but there’s a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

  • @Aidinthel@reddthat.com
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    191 year ago

    That sort of thing should be a self-correcting problem to an extent - when performance drops, people will (hopefully) move to other intances. Also, a well-managed instance would stop accepting new members before it go to that point.

    • @roo@lemmy.one
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      41 year ago

      Also, there would be developers watching https://fediverse.observer to see if few registrations are open, but sign-ups are climbing in all open instances. Of course they are going to jump in if there’s an opportunity.

    • @small44@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      People will only do that if they can migrate all the past history to a new instance and the syncing issues between instances are fixed

    • @remkit@lemmy.kya.moe
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      11 year ago

      Until people start donating to instance owners, and instance owners continuously scale up the servers, thus inviting even more people to centralised on the biggest few instances.