While this is an understandable desire my question is as follow:

If you don’t want ads, and don’t want to pay for every service, how’s all the internet system supposed to be sustainable on the long run? How should things be financed?

This

One of the doubts I have is how all of this can be sustainable on the long term, because ok they run on donation now, but Lemmy is really small, a proper social network can’t hold itself on 2 developers and the unpaid work of volunteers

Can all of this scale up?

They received a grant from NLbet, but apparently they’re having an hard time reaching the requirements for the next tranche