As you may have already noticed, 3 new admins have been added. Welcome @TruckBC@lemmy.ca , @Shadow@lemmy.ca , and @Jarcode@lemmy.ca! There are also many more people that are helping behind the scenes as well. They have many years of experience moderating various subreddits, and I believe that they can bring lemmy.ca to the next level.
We have been collaborating so that they will be taking over hosting this instance. When I initially volunteered to take over this instance early in 2022, I was thinking it would just be a hobby project, and I really had no idea what I was getting myself into. With the surge of new users in the past few weeks, and potentially a lot more to come soon, I decided that I don't have the time or energy required to dedicate to running this site, and it just so happened that they were looking for a new home too.
@crb@lemmy.ca and I will stay on as an admin while we transition to a new server, just to make sure everything goes smoothly, but I plan on removing myself as an admin once everything is settled. I will try and stay active here as a user, because I believe that lemmy and the fediverse can become something great!
I have also suspended donations for the time being, but thank you to all that have already donated. All your current donations will be transferred to the new admins.
I have also upgrade the server to 8 CPU's and 8 GB, since it seemed to be struggling with an influx of new users tonight, so sorry about the brief downtime!
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ask!
Any possibility of incorporating as a non-profit society with membership and tax-deductible donations?
While incorporating as a non-profit association is 100% part of the plans, being recognized as a charitable organization to be able to make donations tax-deductible for donors is going to be a very difficult threshold to pass with what we are doing from what I recall last time I went through non-profit registration stuff. Will definitely look into it though.
I believe this is the plan, yes.