• BedSharkPal@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I know people like to shit on the Reddit gold concept. But I still think it makes sense and is one of the least obtrusive ways to raise funds sustainably.

    • ohlaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      And it was fun to let people know how much you appreciated their comment ot post.

    • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That wouldn’t really work in federation, unless the reddit gold mechanic is tied to that specific instance.

  • NotBadAndYou@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m assuming 1172 is a count of donations to official mainstream servers. I have definitely contributed to my local server.

  • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    i was once told to hotlink images from other hosters… as opposed to uploading to lemmy. (to save on resources!)

  • danhab99@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    TBH I’d be willing to pay $1/month. If every Lemmy user did that I think it would be plenty to keep the servers hot.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I think it’s a symptom of Lemmy’s core premise - where do I direct funds as the “common” user (read as less technically sophisticated)? To access and engage with Lemmy I…

    1. use an app…
    2. that channels a specific server…
    3. contained within are individual mods that maintain communities and curate content…
    4. and all of that lives within the larger “world” of Lemmy as an idea

    There are many hands in that chain. Your dedicated users can handle negotiating that decision maybe, but the “common” user cannot - and this post is trying to discuss Lemmy at scale, so you’re talking about that “common” user.

    Again, it’s counter to the founding spirit of Lemmy, but we’re missing a centralized path to supporting all of the distributed hands doing work on this idea. Not an easy problem to solve, but one that should be acknowledged.

  • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Ugh! Can’t they just monetize the sale of our personal data and push nauseating ads every other post… like any other respectable post aggregation platform?

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      poor losers like us are the ones likely to spend our time in places like this.

      and poor losers like us dont have the money to donate.

      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I would bet that at least 90% of Lemmy could afford a recurring donation of $1 to $3 per month. If 90% of 50,000 users donated $1 per month, they could bring in $45,000 per year. Currently, the 1172 donators are donating even more than that, which pays for 1 full time developer. If we picked up the slack, they could afford two, effectively doubling the dedicated work output.

        It’s that simple. Either we band together and keep this system afloat, or we give our data to corporations so they can sell it and pay the bills that way. There isn’t really a third option.

        Edit: I can’t believe this has been up this long and nobody has corrected my awful math. It isn’t $45,000 per year, it’s 45,000 users donating a combined total of $540,000 per year. Basically, 90% of us donating $1 per month could take this rocket ship straight to the moon.

  • Muscar@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    3 months ago

    53k monthly active users is way less than I expected. But makes sense with how slow things are here.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Word. The large instances are well funded at the moment. I think the funding is lacking on the developer side. Subscribe if you can. I have. :)

    • Thrashy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Frankly, given the conflicting priorities and attitudes of the two primary Lemmy devs compared to the needs of instance admins, I’d rather the better-funded instances pooled some of their excess and funded an independent contributor to work on mod tools, GDPR issues, and other things that operators are concerned about that have been backburnered by the current devs.

      • FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Wasn’t there some guy who wanted a total of 8 dollars to fix the GDPR issue and they didn’t get funded? Something tells me the operators aren’t too concerned

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If you’re broke, don’t give. I think there’s enough of us who can afford a few bucks a month and we should get more people to do it.