Lemmy.nz Support

Hi all!

TL;DR You can donate to Lemmy.nz's server costs here: https://ko-fi.com/nzfedi

As you may or may not know, Lemmy.nz is jointly hosted with some other NZ fediverse services. Due to lower fees, donations to support the hosting of Lemmy.nz can now be made here: https://ko-fi.com/nzfedi

• You can do one off donations, but regular donations are best even if smaller, as it helps for longer term planning.
• If you're currently donating to the Open Collective page, please cancel that and use the ko-fi link if you can, as the fees are lower.
• Please mention in the "Your message" box that you're from Lemmy.nz (or if you use both Mastodon.nz and Lemmy.nz or Pixelfed.nz, say so), that helps with seeing where donations are coming from.
• If making the donation will materially affect you, PLEASE DON'T DONATE! Lemmy.nz is not going to die if you don't donate. Please only donate if you have plenty of money, but if you can donate on a regular basis without it materially affecting you, then please consider a regular donation.

There have been some changes to the structure and the team that host the server are decentralising a bit. The hardware we were on was also ageing, so the server is now running on leased hardware with ongoing costs, which is around $85 per month. The host has other costs that add up to the annual goal shown on ko-fi such as email sending and backup costs, but for Lemmy.nz I do emails/backups/etc separately so we just want to try to cover our share of that $85/mo (Lemmy uses a fair bit of CPU and disk space so our share is possibly 50% or more of that figure).

I'm going to make a more prominent link to this post so that people can find it in future.