Also look into donating to your instance maintainer. They literally pay for the server costs, so it's fair.
Yea, gotta send my maintainer some money.
Reminds me of that Southpark episode, where all the adults are gone.
"Provider, provider..."
Did you do it?
Sure as hell did, I took a 20 euro bill went to atm and put it to my bank account.
Got the donation completely safe.
Ok, try making it monthly recurring!
I have been wondering why my maintainer doesn't remind people to donate more often. I set up a small recurring donation, so I don't have to remember, but I think it'd be okay to regularly remind people.
My maintainer can't really ask anyone to donate, mostly cause he only has one user and thats him.
Servers aren't cheap to run... And we're all still trying to run stuff as cheap as we can while still giving our users a good experience.
To be honest, it's quite cheap but it's very time-consuming
I feel like there should be a Lemmy campaign: "Do you know who your maintainer is? Contact your local instance and find out!"
Thank you!
I think that some people like me know who their maintainer is all too well.
It's important to know thyself.
It's expensive to run your own servers, even with Hetzner, Vultr and Digital Ocean.
I would recommend KoFi for donation services. It's what we prefer.
Not having one time donations prevents a lot of people from participating
Open Collective allows one time donations.
You can also make a donation on Liberapay and then it's very easy to cancel it after the first payment so it doesn't recur.
Just set up auto-donations to Lemmy devs and my instance admin(s). Thanks for the reminder! It ain't much for me, but with many others doing the same it'll make a huge difference.
I donate 20 dollars a month to Lemmy devs 🤷♀️
Thank you for your kindness 🙏
Signed up for $5/month. I have a ton of Patreon subscriptions, mostly for podcasts but also a couple of software projects. I tried to donate to my instance to help cover hosting, but it was only PayPal (who stole my money many years ago and made it impossible to contest). I hadn't ever considered donating to the devs, so thanks for making this post.
Happy to be part of that very select subgroup
The top dogs.
Or should I say hedgehogs.
I've been donating to the patreon linked in the lemmy.world sidebar: https://www.patreon.com/mastodonworld/about
What's the difference between that and this?
That's donating to your Lemmy server, not the development of Lemmy itself. Which is totally cool and I commend you for it.
Thanks for the answer - it's good to know!
Thanks for the reminder. Just signed up for monthly donations.
And just like that, I now have both a liberapay account and am using a new keyboard on my phone.
What’s with the new keyboard?
The description on dessalines' liberapay page mentioned him working on Thumb-Key. So I figured I'd give it a try.
Nope. I'm a touch typist. That keyboard doesn't fit my brain. QWERTY is too deeply embedded.
If only there was a way for each viewer to contribute a small donation based on views/clicks. Like some sort of digital billboard.
Put it on the blockchain! /s
you mean ads? Yes that's fine as long as they don't sell our data or get paid by groups to manipulate content
ads are fine
of course it's a lemmy.world user lmao
Didn't take long for instancism to become a thing here, huh
Lightning zaps are implementable
Hey I have donated to lemmy and lemm.ee
Nice username
Thanks
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