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YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're not paying with real money or work, someone else is, or you're paying with something else.

[+] [email protected] -15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you need to show me an ad every once in a while I’m all for it. I’m not saying go full Reddit, but as a non-profit, please try and break even. Financial instability is just as bad as getting hacked or ddos’d.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Wikipedia managed to do it on donations only. Federated social media is similar in many ways and I think it's entirely possible that we may get development and hosting to be funded in a similar fashion.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And most open source projects run under this model. I'm leaving if ads appear tbth

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think the lesson that should be beginning to crystallise in people's minds these days is that we have to pay. If we don't, we get Facebook, Digg, Reddit, etc. We get inevitable enshitification. I mentioned Wikipedia because I think paying for it has sunk into many people's minds already. And generally we don't need everyone to pay. If the ones that can afford to spare a few bucks a month, do, it'll be enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The more this looks like Reddit the more likely I am to just switch back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

What are you referring to "looking like Reddit"? And why would you want their API lock-in, paid ads disguised as content, and obvious AI bot posts?