Reddit’s cofounder said that at first the company felt like ‘a homework assignment that got out of hand’ rather than a business::Reddit’s cofounder Steve Huffman said in its early days he filled up most of the site with content using different accounts until it got more users.
Yup, I’m actually working on one distributed alternative, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever actually finish it.
And yeah, Lemmy is good in that it’s resilient to nodes dropping off, but it doesn’t solve the problem of costly hosting. I would assume the total cost of running Lemmy is way more expensive (perhaps an order of magnitude) than running Reddit, for the same number of users, because of how much duplication and communication there needs to be across instances.
So yeah, I’m here while lemmy is sustainable, but I’m worried about how it’ll scale.