cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/16660104
Consider supporting Lemmy development or donating to your local server if you have the means. Peace!
I think the number is much higher if you consider all the people donating to their local server.
Plus your numbers seem off. For example, Librapay shows that there are currently over 300 people with weekly donations. Where are past or one time donors listed?
Patreon is paying out $2k a month, and has over 400 donors.
Your number seems much more like the number of regular donors rather than the total number of donors ever.
Right. My instance maintainer accepts donations via Ko-fi, which isn’t even listed here.
The links here are specifically the donation links to donate to the Lemmy devs. So even though they link to Open Collective, that’s specifically the Lemmy dev one. There are others for other instances.
Sure, but the body of the post mentions donating to devs and instance owners. I’m being pedantic I know, but I think it would be a more informative post if it’d made clear what the donation numbers refer to and what they don’t.
I’m no expert but 1 in 50 donors doesn’t even seem too bad
Honestly that actually looks like a lot especially since this doesn’t seem to include 1 time donations and donating to your home instances.
Surprisingly high number. Gold rate.
That number seems a bit low, but it’s really important to support Lemmy and your instance.
I’d love to support my instance, but it ain’t doable for now (at least it wasn’t when I looked into it around Christmas).
I also think accepting donations demand some organization with taxes and everything. That’s why some instances don’t accept them.
Good reminder. Subbed to patreon
How am I supposed to donate to a project that forces me to select the language at the end of each post?
Fucks sake, is it that hard to have a dropdown under settings for the default language?
And to be fair, what’s the point? The people running the biggest instances will eventually sell all their user’s data to train LLMs anyways. There’s no guarantee they won’t.
@TCB13 @CowsLookLikeMaps I sympathise, but perhaps they could fix that and many other issues if they had more funding. If it was already perfect, they would have less need for funding, I suppose.
Is there any transparency around the donations?
- What’s the sum of the donations?
- What’s the split between reoccurring donations and one off donations?
- How many mouths does it feed?
- How many of those mouths are full time?
- What’s the split between the mouths?
Our current donation amounts, summing from the various platforms, and live updated every few hours, are here: https://join-lemmy.org/donate
Currently we have 2 full time devs(nutomic and me, splitting ~1 dev salary, as you can see from the above link), and have 2-3 more that we’d like to add as fulltime to our little dev coop.
We’re also in the process of getting another year of funding from NLNet (we’ll announce this once its finalized), which will go to the new devs we’re trying to onboard.
