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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    They also wanted control over the user base, so they could do more intrusive bullshit to push more ads onto users. With the fediverse there’s no monopoly on the platform so no one instance can get full control and abuse their power. With Reddit the only choice was to either submit or leave completely. With Lemmy all you need to do is swap instances.

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      If only you could save all your user activity along with swapping the instance… But as I understood, this is not implemented yet.