Not having one time donations prevents a lot of people from participating
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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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.
Hey I have donated to lemmy and lemm.ee
Nice username
Thanks
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.
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.
Are you trying to pressure people to donate? Not cool man.
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.
Thanks for the reminder. Just signed up for monthly donations.
If only there was a way for each viewer to contribute a small donation based on views/clicks. Like some sort of digital billboard.
Lightning zaps are implementable
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
I donate 20 dollars a month to Lemmy devs 🤷♀️
Thank you for your kindness 🙏
We started coming here because we had to pay for Reddit
I was a Redditor for 14 yrs or so never paid a penny. I left because of censorship, bots and shills, atroturf'd voting and manipulation of content and posts from the reddit team themselves due to bribes or whatever support they get from forign entities, how they killed all 3rd party apps, and how they use their users data and abusing their mods and subs under those mods control.
And the moon rug pull!
Plus reddit used to be fun. I remember thinking at the end of the day, "I'll browse reddit until I read something that makes me laugh out hard" and withing 15-20 minutes, I was laughing my ass off.
Nowadays it's pure doom and gloom bullshit.
That's not accurate and that's a false equivalency and you know it, man.
I hate reddit and everything but reddit is still "free" last time I checked (though the users are the product.)
We're here because reddit screwed up alternative app devs, and it also worsened the user experience for everyone.
And the "reddit payments" are there solely to enrich some board member assholes.
Donating to Lemmy instance maintainers so they recoup some of the server costs for something they pretty much consider a hobby is definitely not the same.
Nah. Im here because I didn't want to pay.
You were never forced to pay though... And no one else is here for that (non-existent) reason.
You can't just say "we" and then give a completely illogical reason.
YOU and only you are here because you are an idiot and thought you had to pay, no one else is part of that.
You don’t need to pay there either, so feel free to go back.
But you didn't have to pay. So...
But regardless, we're all here.
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.
Happy to be part of that very select subgroup
I feel like there should be a Lemmy campaign: "Do you know who your maintainer is? Contact your local instance and find out!"
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.
Thank you!
I think that some people like me know who their maintainer is all too well.
It's important to know thyself.
Also look into donating to your instance maintainer. They literally pay for the server costs, so it's fair.
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
Yea, gotta send my mainter some money.
Did you do it?
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.
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!
Reminds me of that Southpark episode, where all the adults are gone.
"Provider, provider..."