'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

‘Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,’ Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Server costs are probably a small proportion of their costs, labour costs are probably going to be the biggest part, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Spez’s salary/bonus knocks them from profitable to unprofitable, as being profitable is bad for tax purposes

    • WalterzarBoBalterzar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      With all due respect and empathy to reddit’s employees who do deserve gainful employment:

      Does a link aggregator really need a huge labor pool? In terms of functionality Lemmy is already on par with how I remember Reddit 10 years ago (compared to which the experience of Reddit today is actually worse). And Lemmy achieves it with what, an extreme fraction of the labor cost?

      Props to all the devs, admins, etc who are hosting all these Lemmy instances for us, btw :)