Call for donations for Lemmy.World (Autumn 2026)
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I'm doing my part! Thanks for all the hard work to keep lemmy.world running!
Oh what the heck, I can chip in a few bucks a month to support social media that isnt evil
Chipped in a euro monthly
Most my donations go to lemmy.ca, which is my 'home' instance, but .world is definitely THE hub
I would like to donate with Bitcoin if possible.
Thought about this some days ago that I should donate more to organisations that does good, now this comes up and I instantly clixk the links, turns out I am already a monthly donor!
What's a suggested donation for an average user? I currently have €1/mo set up via LiberaPay.
Threw 20 Euro in. 👍
From what I know, non-profits can better calculate with regular lower but regular payments. I make a monthly payment of two Euro which isn't the world but it's steady, ends up a similar amount per year as you, and I won't cancel this anytime soon.
Hi admins! Could we get updated financial info for this year? Are the costs still the same? There was a tax bill last year, is there one this year? Did you ever find an accountant? As a small point of order, it's better to have all of the financial info up to date before asking for more money.
I setup a monthly reoccurring bank transfer last year, but I'd like to see current financial information to know if I need to adjust my transfer amount.
Hahaha! It's not Autumn down here!
Kackles in Australian.
Hell, it's not here in California either lol it's hot as shit
I'm an idiot but can someone explain why Lemmy isn't P2P
There is something like that called Plebbit, it's a good example of all the downsides of such a system.
It's decentralized and "censorship proof" AKA completely unmoderated with all the spamming and unsavory content one might expect. The CSAM issue is mostly avoided because it doesn't support any kind of media sharing (only plain text) due to the bandwidth for P2P connections and avoiding having to store that on the client. Last time I checked content also simply disappears when users disconnect.
The federated system is better because it's more efficient and scales better since only a couple hundred instances have to send/receive activity instead of hundred thousands of users individually. It also helps ensure content is moderated. Admins tend to keep their own instance clean and defederate from instances that don't.
the 90%/9%/1% rule or whatever suggests that ~90% of users won't give any effort, so any amount of friction like installing/debugging/managing/administrating their P2P setup is a no-go
It's already semi-p2p by the way federation works. I think it would be highly ineffective to make it actually p2p.
Imagine having every user host their own community on an instance. Then you have to federate across other users to have other content in the instance, . But instead of it being 400 instances now, it's 77,000 instances all trying to stay current from various toshiba shitboxes.
Content aggregation is more of a "master list" problem than a computing problem to solve. Which is easier from a central repo.
Does it move the needle if i chip in just 1?
If you do it, I will.
Which pay option has the least fees or admin costs? Want you to get all of what i send.
Probably Liberapay. They don't take any fees because they're also funded via donations. The only fees that occur on there are the payment processors (banks, credit card companies, PayPal, etc), and you have to deal with those fees no matter what
One can presume the preferred option is their preference.
One can presume the preferred option is their preference.
But the preferred option makes little sense for Europeans in the SEPA region. SEPA transfers have no fees attached by law.
Just did. My first ever digital subscription. I feel wealthy.
I have supportarded!
5$ a month. I was just thinking about how I'd never pay for any kind of reddit anything. But this doesn't feel all hurty in my soul. Ty for making a space that's not hyper capitalist.
Done.
Do you have crypto donation options? I checked all the posted payment providers above and didn't see any
there is a post from 3 years ago with crypto donation addresses, are they still valid? https://lemmy.world/post/12531572
Also, we had some unexpected extra costs (over 1000,–) when we had to pay taxes for the foundation (strange, for a non-profit..). I'll see if we can get an accountant to check this, but also accountants are costly..
Ouch
Do you have any non-profit support organizations, local to where you have your accounts, that might be able to help for cheap or pro-bono?
Thank you for all the work you do!
Thank you for doing a patreon! Signed up for $2 a month, its not much, but if I know me, ill never cancel it. Its so easy everybody, go sign up for a couple bucks a month!
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Thank you <3
And to everyone else as I won't reply to everyone so as not to spam up the thread :)
Can't do monthly but done'ed a one off!
Will do more one day once local morale improves etc.
If you can do a yearly donation that's sometimes better for projects as they minimize per-payment transfer fees
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It's not much but I gave €10, keep up what you do because it's my first day and I already don't want this place to go
I always feel self conscious sending small amounts, but then I think "maybe that's what stops a lot of people from giving any" because an entire crowd that feels awkward not giving more than 20 actually amounts to a lot
So, don't even sweat it! Give any amount
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I’ll chip in some monies. I also have a metric ton of fucks to give, any particular place to put them? Barely used, fine quality.
Edit: LW team, you are now free to wallow in the pool of monthly donation euros I have just set up.
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