this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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Excuse my ignorance, but can Lemmy and the others handle a Reddit exodus?
Beehaw is already having troubles, guess instances have to ramp up their capacity in their near future
Based on their funding post a few days ago, they're on a digital ocean droplet that costs $18/month or something, so there's plenty of room to scale that up. Whether or not they can afford it or get enough donations to keep it up is debatable. Point is the hosting requirements are fairly low.