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Just an FYI in case you feel like throwing me a few bucks to offset server costs every month or whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A good portion of LiberaPay was written in a coffee shop in NE Ohio

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Done and set to yearly renewal. Thanks @[email protected] !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New to Lemmy in general, but I saw on other lemmy instances server owners provided monthly updates to their server costs and had transparency of exactly how much money has been donated that month, how much money is set aside in total, and the monthly server costs. I love this and think its great if that was done here

Also, is there any thought on updating the specs of the server when more users join and traffic increases?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of that chatter is happening over on the midwest.social Matrix server. There has been a lot of database talk that's been way over my head haha.

At least 2 hardware upgrades have happened in the last couple days iirc.

When I asked about server costs earlier, the owner told me:

I get like $9/week so yeah I'm good

I think it's at $28 a month now with the upgrades

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Done-zo. Viva Lemmy and @[email protected] !

These things are definitely worth a donating to, as I do with my Mastodon instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for being a smooth landing for us from the other side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Happy to do it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does one see the sidebar while on mobile in a browser?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Never mind. I found it. But you got to be on the main page to see the right sidebar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is this thing cloud hosted or self-hosted?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cloud hosted for now on a Digital Ocean server in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why in Germany and not somewhere more geographically central to most users?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their data privacy laws are way better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome man, thanks for being conscious of that! ❤️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Done! However, I would prefer to make small donations in bitcoin (BTC). That way you get it all, and I'm not making a bank rich. Plz update me if you get a BTC address. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm all for bitcoin, but how are you making a bank rich by transferring money to someone?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The cc company takes a cut of the donation which takes away from the owner who's running the server. I just meant I'd rather not deal with the bank/institution if there's an option not to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oooh that makes sense. I was thinking more along the lines of an ACH transfer, or paypal or venmo or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

or through Lightning! ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I will def contribute!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
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