• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 months ago

        He might, but that’s the whole point of federation - there’s hundreds of other instances (including the one you’re using) that he can’t buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.

        Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk’s version.

        • daltotron@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          I think the best option would actually be to see how many times we can pull the scam on him, before he realizes what’s happening. Oops, oh no Elon, people are using a different instance! Look at how many users they have (they are different users we swear)! Looks like you’re gonna have to buy that one now! and so on.

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          8 months ago

          Yeh, if he bought twitter for 44B, and there are 400 instances then that is still 110M per instance if he were to do that again.
          Even 10% of that amount is more than an instance is worth.
          Sales can be made pretty quickly when they are massively overvalued.

        • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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          8 months ago

          I doubt the devs of Lemmy would accept that considering their political opinions.

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            8 months ago

            Oh my sweet summer child.

            Most people would sell their own grandmother into slavery for a few million. I mean they’d feel terrible about it but still.

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              8 months ago

              These dev with their technical level could work at top tech companies and gain that in a couple of years. Yet they dedicated their time to building Lemmy instead.

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                  8 months ago

                  Before the Reddit migration, our income was almost exclusively made up of generous donations from the NLnet foundation. This funding was based on getting paid for implementing new features, specified in advance.

                  We’ve known that this funding could not last indefinitely, and that after several years of funding, NLnet’s resources are better spent getting other projects up and running. Additionally, much of our time is spent on other equally important work: reviewing changes from community contributors, fixing bugs, doing support, and various organizational tasks.

                  That is why we are launching our first annual funding drive. The goal is to increase monthly, recurring donations from currently €4.000 to at least €12.000. With this amount @dessalines and @nutomic can each receive a yearly salary of €50.000 which is in line with median developer salaries. It will also allow one additional developer to work fulltime on Lemmy and speed up development. https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-10-31_-_Join-Lemmy_Redesign_and_Funding_Drive

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        8 months ago

        Then I hop to another instance or create one of my own (running 19 or later so I can block his) and problem solved, lol.

        Federation means Musk can buy a single instance, or even a hundred instances, but cannot prevent anyone else from simply opening another somewhere else and making their own portal to the same content he wants to collect behind a paywall (if he even could).