Hey everyone, hope you’re doing well. For some time, lemmy’s been struggling with donations. For all these years, the lemmy devs, like them or hate them; have been building the software that powers the entirety of the forumverse (that’s what i’m calling it, fuck you) so if you have even a dollar/euro/peso/whatever to give, it would be greatly appreciated (by the lemmy devs, and all instance admins!)
Good day to y’all :D
crossposted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and I work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Unfortunately the amount of donations has decreased to only 2000€ per month. This leaves only 1000€ per developer, which is not enough to pay my bills. With the current level of donations I will be forced to find another job, and drastically reduce my contributions to Lemmy. To avoid this outcome and keep Lemmy growing, I ask you to please make a recurring donation:
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If you want more information before donating, consider the comparison with Reddit. It began as startup funded by rich investors. The site is managed by corporate executives who over time have become more and more disconnected from normal users. Their main goal is to make investors happy and to make a profit. This leads to user-hostile decisions like firing the employee responsible for AMAs, blocking third-party apps and more. As Reddit is a single website under a single authority, it means all users need to follow the same rules, including ridiculous ones like censoring the name “Luigi”.
Lemmy represents a new type of social media which is the complete opposite of Reddit. It is split across many different websites, each with its own rules, and managed by normal people who actually care about the users. There is no company and no profit motive. Much of the work is carried out by volunteer admins, mods and posters, who contribute out of enthusiasm and not for money. For users this is great as there is no advertising nor tracking, and no chance of takeover by a billionaire. Additionally there are no builtin political or ideological restrictions. You can use the software for any purpose you like, add your own restrictions or scrutinize its inner workings. Lemmy truly belongs to everyone.
Dessalines and I work fulltime on Lemmy to keep up with all the feature requests, bug reports and development work. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. Previously I sometimes had to rely on my personal savings to keep developing Lemmy for you, but that can’t go on forever. We partly rely on NLnet for funding, but they only pay for development of new features, and not for mandatory maintenance work. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached Dessalines and I can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. Please use the link below to see current donation stats and make your contribution! We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
This is excellent timing. I just got an email last night that my auto subscribed donation to our instance was canceled and I don’t know why. I went to just reschedule it and they wanted my cc info but I was waaaay too drunk and in the middle of Pathfinder to go find my card.
Appreciate the reminder. I’ll fix that now.
Dess had his mouth running further than him, saying stupid shit, but I can downplay that and keep donating to him for the future of Lemmy as a whole. The Lemmigrad donation stream may be his own choice, but if he does that, we therefore can ask for a total detalisation of his income and spendings. We deserve to know, if he does that from his own paycheck himself, or if our donations directly support this one stalinist resource.
The devs activly support calls for the deaths of all americans on ML. There needs to be a way of supporting the codebase without supporting the core devs…
Support the codebase without supporting the people who write the codebase seems impossible. Unless you want to fork it and then take the money for that.
Is there any source to that claim? It sounds ridiculous even by lemmygrad and hexbear standards
Here I talk about how a tankie called for my death, I called him stupid, and dessalines banned me.
https://lemmy.world/post/20389892Perhaps I need more coffee, but I don’t see where a hexbear or .ml person said that. I see the modlog where you said they said that, and then got removed/banned, but I don’t see someone from Hexbear saying it.
Maybe I’m just missing something, however.
Another example why “unlimited genocide on the first world” remains relevant
(libs not getting JDPON memes is funny AF)
As an American, death to America and all its cultists known as citizens who worship its civil religion of exceptionalism. 🫡🫡
How many layers of irony am I even on here.
Well, you can always do the liberal thing instead and sell Lemmy off to a billionaire parasite like Zuckerberg or Bezos. I’m sure they will always welcome another right-wing social media mouthpiece.
Take your pick.
Liberals would rather have Lemmy die than fund the services and servers, it’s rather telling they want one unified opinion to be for all of Lemmy. And if the devs wanted the same thing, they’re evil and trying to control the platform.
Right now dbz0 is having people brigade it because we want to have AI on our platform. They’re mad we have our own rules on our own instance.
Right? Like isn’t that the entire point of the Fediverse? Aren’t we meant to be able to exist in little instances with values that we align with? And if people don’t like it, they’re free to move somewhere else, or peacefully block us and our ways?
Tell that to the .world users who wants dbzer0 gone because we don’t like copyright.
Is the crazy tankie still the one who’s get the money?
Then lol, never
Oh, and apparently donating does to the .ml server costs, too? Idk how true that is, but hell no if true and gross how much this is getting spammed around
Would you donate for Lemmy development if lemmy.ml had a separate donation account?
I would
As long as you and saline are involved: not a chance of my money going to the project
This is the opinion of a vast portion of the userbase given the comments I’ve seen on this spam today
As long as the people who created Lemmy are involved with Lemmy, I will not donate.
What a convenient excuse to never make any donation for the software you use every single day. You almost make me regret creating this platform.
There’s piefed too; i’m very interested in it (even contributed to it, not through code though; through ideas to rimu and even a whole theme) it’s still too early to be used by us, but if you’re interested: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38328295/16837857
I’d love to run a piefed instance, as I can hack its code directly. Sadly it’s just not as mature, One can’t migrate instances, and there’s not enough time in the world :(
Ye if it matures I might host a new instance, but I have my hands full enough with one as is it.
I’m using the theme, so thank you.
Glad to hear somebody’s using it :D
Agreed.
Never, unless funds can be 100% directed AWAY from .ml and its sycophants.Can you donate directly to other devs? That really is very concerning, and I really don’t want to help .ml…
As it says there, you can to nutomic, but they’re famously a massive transphobe who claims that trans people are western propaganda (Id forgotten that until I read the comments on the post I linked)
I’ve said it off platform for a whole - Lemmy’s a waste of time because the devs are garbage people the community actively hates. Unless someone forks it or the current devs hand it over I don’t see Lemmy making it much further than this tbh. I kinda expected them to give up on the project from all the mass hate they got a while ago, but part of what makes them annoying is how stubborn they are lol
“Massive transphobe” is a huge exaggeration, I wrote a single private message which wasnt well thought out and simply a mistake. Does that invalidate all the work I did over the last five years to make Lemmy what it is today?
most devs are garbage, ppl just have their views hiddes as facelss corporate cogs typicallycmost ppl in general tbh, just talking to drunk strangers will make you hate most ppl, they do more for me than you, they gave me this platform, they let me bitch and see your bitching lol
Relevant context: https://lemmy.ml/comment/18395421
I dont like that they imply lemmy would die without them like mbin and piefed dont exist? And they are running off activityhub, not like the core is lemmy? Correct me if im wrong, but if they stopped developing wed prob have a short period before apps switched to supporting mbin/piefed or others popped up? Guess the hard parts migrating all existing communites/instances.
Fuck Dessalines, fuck Lemmy as a software
I don’t have any money though
