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How would you feel about awards on lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fact is, the Lemmy ecosystem needs money to handle the growing server reqirements as more people migrate as well as the development cost of new features (I know Lemmy is OSS but the devs should still get some compensation for their effort).

Seeing how much some reddit users love awards so much that they cant stop giving money to Reddit to award posts protesting the api change, this could be a great way for users to voluntary support the ecosystem. It can be easily ignored by users not caring about them (clients could even add an option to hide them), but users liking the feature can go wild and this time the money goes to volunteers keeping this alive instead of greedy admins, power mods and investors.

Though there would be some big organization questions attached: attached:

Which server handles the payment? A centralized one, the one where the post was made or the one where the user giving the award account was created.
How will the money be shared between the Devs and the individual instances in a way that is fair but cant be abused easily.

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

I don't want to see award speeches here on Lemmy. For example: OMG! THANK YOU FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!!!!1111

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy core devs are actually employed full time to work on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What’s funding their salaries? Just donations?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

See this post. The work is sponsored by the NLnet Foundation

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

Could we like, not immediately talk about monetisation 1 month after leaving reddit? If you want to support your instance host, you can ask for a way to donate.

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

I don't want the comments section to look like the inner cabinet of the North Korean army

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

I think it's a distraction from the actual interactions. Same way karma is.

I'm all for supporting instances and open source developers, but any kind of reward for a donation creates wrong incentives. Donation is called a donation because it's a gift without expecting something in return.