Note: I may be slow to update the post title with the current goal progress. You can check it here.
TankieTube is holding its first ever fundraiser! 
If you've found the site of value, then please consider becoming a sustaining member through Liberapay (if you have the means to do so)! 
It's our preferred method.
https://liberapay.com/TankieTube/donate
We've set an ambitious goal of $100 per week, which would cover much of the current server, bandwidth, and storage costs.
One-Time Donations
Liberapay currently doesn't support one-time donations, but you can effectively make one by signing up and then cancelling your subscription after the first payment.
Other ways to make a one-time donation, for your convenience:
1) 
PayPal/Venmo/Credit/Debit [No anonymity]
Pros: Simple, fast, no account creation required
Cons: Your name and address is revealed (to me); it's not private and anonymous like Liberapay
2) 
Monero (XMR) [Ultimate OpSec]
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Pros: Untraceable: Neither I nor Liberapay will know your identity. Can bypass US sanctions which affect PayPal and Liberapay.
Cons: Complicated
The majority of existing cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, have transparent blockchains. Transactions can be verified and/or traced by anyone in the world. This means that the sending and receiving addresses of these transactions could potentially be linked to real-world identities.
Monero is the only major cryptocurrency where every user is anonymous by default. The sender, receiver, and amount of every single transaction are hidden through the use of three important technologies: Stealth Addresses, Ring Signatures, and RingCT.
If you buy Monero on a public exchange such as Kraken, then transfer it to a private wallet you control before sending a payment.
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thank you for everything you do to keep tankietube going! unfortunately, i don't have anything to help with the costs but i can definitely be more selective in what i upload.
slightly unrelated question if that's ok
i noticed that since the update, the search function defaults to searching the "vidiverse" rather than tankietube's specific instance. is there a user setting i might be missing to have the search function default to our instance?I made TankieTube for comrades! Don't feel guilty about using it or being unable to contribute. π There is no need to be too selective about what you upload unless you're already storing multiple terabytes of slop. If I need to control costs in the future, I will start by setting a more restrictive policy for non-Hexbears.
I didn't realize the default search scope had changed. I just set it to "only videos from this platform". Did that work?
you're so kind comrade! (on my end i still have to change the search target to our instance in the search filter but it's no worries)
I made another setting change to the search. Try again and let me know.
what you did this time worked! :D