Looks like the only unique information they wanted was my age and a “Name” which doesn’t look like it has to be legit or not. It asked for my username, email which they would already have.

I did it whatever. 80 dollars is 80 dollars.

I have no idea. I’m sure we’ll figure that out along the way. At first it will probably be out of pocket from thousands of homelab hobbiests.

Maybe eventually they could implement something like gilding that Reddit had. I’m sure gilding alone could fund a lot of servers. When you take out the millions of dollars the share holders were taking it properly didn’t take much money to run all of Reddit.

The nice thing about Lemmy that Reddit never had is that it can only improve in ways that the community wants! Not more putting up with asinine decisions from people who only see us as dollar signs.

After going to mastadon from twitter, and now to Lemmy from Reddit, I feel like the fediverse is the future of the internet. The internet was always a very democratic place. It only makes sense it ended up this way. When people can choose a different option at the flick of a wrist it makes it hard to keep autocracies.