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I donated the other day and I'm glad to see the user base here so willing to support the project!
If we want these places to succeed, we need to be willing to pay for them. It's the only way to keep things running ad and data collection free.
I would have been happy paying Reddit to keep 3rd party app access... But they clearly think my data is worth more than a direct monthly fee. So I'll give them neither and hang out here instead.
Even if we were willing to pay the API fee at 20x the estimated per-user revenue, they wanted to gut the content available by killing NSFW. I understand porn is politically/legally challenging at this time, fine exclude that. Now consider how much more content would be excluded from a paying user. There's a LOT flagged as NSFW on reddit that has nothing to do with porn.
To anyone looking to donate here is a financial thread made by the admins for this month where they outline where money is going and how much is spent roughly each month (it is a few days old however and donations have increased since then so i would keep that in mind) https://beehaw.org/post/428209
I'm not even on this instance and still donate a small sum monthly on opencollective. Really like the Beehaw community.
I've thrown in about $40 total since I joined. I should do monthly but I'm trying to cut down on subscriptions since I have a bad habit of signing up for a bunch and forgetting to cancel. I'll try to make sure I actively donate regularly though as long as I'm using the instance. I appreciate the effort the admins have gone into making this instance and I want to do my part to help ease potential stress on the financial side at least