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also the wayback machine works with the fediverse observer. so you can look here

Maybe a survey can disprove my opinion. but i would argue the option of having ads plus paying for the ability to remove ads is something most users would accept (even if there is a vocal minority). especially if you explain that researching and developing some forms of content (documentaries, video courses, investigative journalism) can take dozen of hours and is not feasible to do without getting paid when aiming for the highest quality.

That could be better then just restricting videos (mitra could also be a open source alternative to patreon).

All those terms, "increasing shareholder value" , "no tracking", "is billionaire proof" , "no venture capital available". would be really hard to understand for anyone that is not a hardcore fosshead . even if they will understand understanding the benefits of these properties is not easy . reportedly the average age of a reddit user is 23, how many 23 year old know what "venture capital" and "shareholder" even mean?

Maybe lemmy needs something like a whitepaper or a manifesto.

I looked around for some info about A/B testing but it seems relatively complicated to setup. Do you have any tools to suggest for that?

Not really. i know wikimedia foundation did that but it is probably not the best option. googling gives a few results but that's not really insightful.

And I can see what you mean about the text sounding unsure. What do you think about this one?

I don't think this solves the problems i mentioned (including in the pull request). donations and working full time are a means to an end. the average response by average joe might be "well they can just get a regular job like the rest of us".

I don't we should insist on just having a elevator pitch. sure an elevator pitch is very useful but i know that when i wanted to donate to charities I looked for a decent chunk of information to help me make a decision.

this part that appears inside thunderbird (which seems to be doing very well interm of fundraising) is more like something i had in mind (in term of feeling important)

there is some research about this type of messaging (see risk aversion and fear appeals). naturally it does not feel great because i think the thought that a project is at risk and might need donations is a negative evaluation that will probably produce a negative emotion. but i think it is the honest truth for thunderbird and lemmy and any large scale open source project.

If you know a catchy name for this series you can also comment it below.

Add "help design lemmy" next to the title? e.g.

Help Design Lemmy: How to improve the Joinlemmy Donation page?

As i said adding a "learn more" section would be really helpful. right now it sounds like you are not really sure you even want donations. if you won't believe people should donate and are not willing to explain why people should do it why should potential donors believe it? . so far i didn't really see a noticeable spike in the patreon and liberapay stats despite many of the largest servers using the newest version (you can enable it to show the version of servers). some projects have a fairly consistent increases in the number of donations for years (e.g. 1 2 3 ) and i don't think lemmy has less potential. even piefed donations have been increasing organically.

Of course A/B testing will be the best way to prove these claims.

Maybe we could crowd source a list of arguments about why people should donate.

That is true, but not so easy to do. To make donation pages like those in your link would require setting up some kind of nonprofit and directly handling credit card payments with some payment processor

Shouldn't it be a good idea anyway to set up a limited liability company at some point anyway? in case you will get sued.