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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.

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[–] RecursiveDescent@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia has been running on donations for so many years. So I don't think we are close to reaching that limit in any way

[–] small44@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia get donation from rich people and big corporations. I don't think the fediverse that level of donation

[–] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To give you an idea, Beehaw’s annual costs are around $12,000: https://opencollective.com/beehaw. AFAIK they have been able to sustain that with donations. Beehaw has around 12,000 users, 4200 of those active per month: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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