I’m fairly new and don’t 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?

Especially with the influx of new users. Hardware upgrades are needed.

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    Wikipedia’s page serves simple. The documents get edited and processed into html when submitted.

    Lemmy dynamically builds the html for every single http get.

    That’s a very different cost for a server.

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      Umm, no? Lemmy UI is a PWA/SPA and all the html “building” happens in your browser.

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        It doesn’t really matter that much if the Lemmy protocol itself doesn’t build the html - there is still a process that involves multiple steps that may or may not be server side in order to build the comment trees that we see.

        There’s a node, yea! Oh hey… that node has children! Awesome! All of those exclamation points are either server side or client side lookups. Hurray! Oh look it’s a wikiepedia article. No exclamation point lookups allowed.