Don't know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.
Also of interest, since this is a good place to plug things, other threadiverse things:
And I couldn't find a way to donate to mbin, in lieu of that:
https://docs.joinmbin.org/contributing/
EDIT: The creator of mbin gave a link in the comments: https://melroy.org/donate.html
nice, its still up there.
I really thought this was an elaborate Saddam hiding meme
That’s what he thought too.
Yeep , same ... came here to post the pic but someone beat me to it lol
… what does it mean‽‽‽‽
Give it the body of Elon Musk and it fits fertectly.
Is this the solution of the post?
Great, now I won't be able to unsee that ever again!
I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
I came here to say this
This one still has the head!
What is this? I don't get it.
Compare the shape of the graph to the shape of the graphic which represented Saddam Hussein. They're vaguely similar.
*near perfect 8-bit representation
Glad, I am not the only one seeing Saddam Hussain everywhere
Can’t slip a Saddam past us that easily!
Saddam Hussein
The fact that that was my first thought is the reason I will be touching grass for the remainder of the day.
God damn it now I cant unsee it
Dev posted few weeks ago about donations being a little short and having lowered making it more difficult to support development. A lot of people then started to donate or increase their financial support.
Edit : for reference https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005
Ah, yes, that was right at the time where I was having peak personal stress/health issues and only did the bare minimum admin work on Lemmy and my other platforms, no wonder I missed it. Glad to see people actually responded to the call to action, though!
I hope you are doing better OP!
Thank you!
I see Saddam Hussein.
Also, we're doing our part. They're still halfway from their nodest goal though.
Oh yea I started donating all right...to PieFed (I don't even have a PF account), .world and .cafe.
I won't be giving a penny to them until I see some major changes in regards to .ml as so many people called for on every other version of the donation thread that wasn't .ml
You can still donate to Lemmy without supporting ML! From https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.ml/post/29579005:
Update: For those of you who want to support Lemmy development without financing the hosting of lemmy.ml, know that the hosting is paid exclusively through OpenCollective. You can see the payment details at this link. This means donations through all other platforms (Liberapay, Ko-fi, Patreon, Crypto) are exclusively for Lemmy development, and not a single cent goes to lemmy.ml hosting.
Edit: Liberapay is the preferable donation option, as it has very low fees and is also open source.
As was brought up in those threads, but it's simply not good enough, it's just paying for .ml with extra steps (e.g. through their pay/salary rather than directly funding hosting costs)
This is a bold lie that Nutomic keeps pushing. These donations go directly to Nutomic and Dessalines. The servers are not the problem. The problem is the admins who happen to be the devs.
They posted asking for people to stand up for them. Dirty communists like myself (okay, and others) stood up and pushed that message everywhere we could. Because you have to want freedom and democracy. It does not come for free.
They posted asking for people to stand up for them.
Ah, that makes sense - I missed that, but have been happily giving them a bit of money for years now. I don't have a lot to spare, but every little bit helps with crowdfunded stuff like that.
Same here. I dont have a lot atm but I try to give what I can and also help out with work.
Honestly, even if it's 2p a month, it'll add up and ensure the longevity of the service at the heart of what we all use daily.
This reminded me that I wanted to support. Just did a yearly payment. Thanks for the amazing work guys! I can't believe a just a few people can maintain such an amazing ecosystem. One day people will understand that, in 48 hours, we could destroy the entire gafam system and replace it with a fair alternative: the Fediverse and FLOSS.
I use Lemmy daily, the least I can do is throw a bit of cash at the Devs!
Interesting. feddit.org also saw a sudden peak in new users registering in the same time period.
Intended to do it long time ago, finally committed!
I have spent way too much time on lemmy this past two years, it is worth the money.
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