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by kaba0 1106 days ago
> A nonprofit reddit would need a lot more money I think.

I don’t think so. The whole of stackoverflow is run from a single (though quite powerful) machine. Server/operation costs are cheap, employees are the big cost.

I think a donation-based model could trivially finance the service costs.

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> The whole of stackoverflow is run from a single (though quite powerful) machine

No, it's not.

But anyway Stack overflow is only text, it's an irrelevant comparison.