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.
The value in the platform comes from the content. Already I’m seeing heavy concentration of user activity here as opposed to other Lemmy instances - people want to go where everyone else is hanging out.
I can see your content just fine from a completely different instance, numbers don’t matter here.