this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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Hello, team at LemmyNSFW,
I'm delighted to see your instance growing and I completely support the idea of donating to ensure the longevity and quality of this platform. Your hard work in maintaining and developing this instance is very much appreciated.
However, I'd like to bring up the idea of financial transparency within our community. Have you considered using a platform like Open Collective for your donation system? It has been adopted by other instances, including Lemmy.world. You can see an example of how they use it here: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld
In my opinion, Lemmy.world is a shining example of how a Lemmy instance should operate financially. They provide transparency about their finances, which has greatly contributed to building trust with their users and the platform as a whole.
Considering we're part of an open-source, decentralized platform, I believe this level of transparency is paramount. It not only helps in building trust but also encourages more users to donate, knowing exactly how their contributions will be utilized.
Moreover, seeing big instances openly donating back to the source code developers could set a wonderful precedent. This act of giving back to those who helped create the foundation of our platform would be a tremendous demonstration of gratitude and community spirit.
Again, I am wholeheartedly in support of donating to this community, and I hope my suggestion will be taken into consideration. Keep up the fantastic work!
Going to have to agree that something like this would be good. Lets people see all in one place where we stand and what is needed.
Yes. And Iβm genuinely ok with big staff spends. Spend it on hookers and cocaine for all I care. All is like to see is that some percentage is committed and shown to be given back to the source code developers.
Agreed, thereβs nothing wrong with making a living. π
Iβd love to see if we could get enough donations going to distribute to content creators? Maybe this is a more mainstream instance/general purpose NSFW, but it would be very cool to see an instance giving ownership to its content creators.
Depending on the jurisdictions involved (where the server is hosted and where the admins live), I can imagine there may be very different laws and regulations governing a forum of user-submitted content and a business acting as a publisher and producer of porn content. A great idea, but not as simple as just having the money to do it.
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Thank you for your opinion! I would like to do this too but we don't use single payment method. Also does Open Collective approve payments or should we trust the admin for this? And do admins attach bills somewhere?
Open collective (of which I have zero affiliation) is working on taking cryptocurrency payments. Last I checked it was in beta.
You can give evidence where you feel it would be beneficial. But yeh. You could always find work arounds.
If itβs something you genuinely want to explore, Iβm happy to volunteer some of my time to help you with implementing and managing that.
The key thing Iβd like to see in all instances, not just yours, is transparency in income, plus some sort of transparency as to how much that may be given back to the community and the source code development.
Honestly. Whatβs done with the rest, I care very little.
Can you contact me from Matrix? my address is @xaeg:matrix.org
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An instance run so good that it caused me to start using my porn account as main account deserves some love and support. Bought a sponsor package on throne.
Thank you for your support buddy π
I joined this instance for the NSFW, but at the moment it is the best performing instance I am on, so I am subscribing to all my tech communities through here as well. In other words, my NSFW account is now my main account. LOL. Going to Patreon for sure.
EDIT: I signed up for $5/month. Keep up the good work!
PS: Would you mind sharing your docker-compose file? I want to deploy a lemmy instance on GCP to help strengthen the network.
Thank you for your support! But I really didn't changed the compose file. I just used default ansible setup for simplicity.
I support you my friend both monetarily and conceptually.
You're one of the people I've seen from the very beginning. Thank you for your support!
Just a headsup if you're trying to get on Open Collective, it looks like that might be another patreon scenario:
Yeah I checked TOS too. I thought it's about posts shared on campaign page. Also Open Collective Europe didn't reject us. But you are right. I'll contact about this to Open Collective and fiscal host.
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Thank you so much for hosting this instance. I appreciate it and will help with a small contribution of a few dollars per month from now own. β€οΈ
Thank you! Every dollar is important and you can be sure that we will use every single dollar for this instance.
Out of curiosity how much storage are you using either total or on average with this instance? I feel like with the amount of media being uploaded it's likely slightly larger than others.
It was about 30GB when I checked two days ago.
Edit: it's 33 now.
Could consider utilising storage buckets for this - Backblaze B2 is $0.005 per GB/month and has partnerships with Cloudflare etc. Should reduce your costs pretty well.
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I set up a Patreon subscription. I am a DevOps Engineer. If you ever need to move to a more distributed setup let me know.
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May I ask where the server is hosted?
Currently Ukraine. May change in the future.
Oh nice. And what platform do you use?
I can't say that for a while. I don't want to doxx myself.
I donβt know how saying what platform is used to host the server will affect its security that much.
For example, the fact you are using cloudflare is public and doesn't really harm you.
Yeah it doesn't but its a shield in front of host itself. We're not doing anything illegal here but still.
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