I just hopped on the Lemmy train, and needless to say, I'm hooked. It's a breath of fresh air compared to the corporate hellhole that Reddit has become, and I'd like to at least pay a little bit for it.

Unfortunately, I'm a broke uni student with enough subscriptions as is, so I can really only justify a buck or two a month. This is where my indecision arises - should I donate to the instance that my account lives on, or to the LemmyNet project itself? I've been digging around, looking at operating costs and such, and I can't figure out which one needs it more (for want of a better term.)

So, what are your thoughts? Or am I just wildly overthinking this?

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[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I think it could be split 25% lemmy, 75% your instance.
Beacuse lemmy could be funded by all users of all instances, but your instance would be only by its users... Although someone could argue it'd be also in the best interest of other instances to fund any instances with interesting communities.

In the end is up to you what's more important.
Maybe one month to one and the next to another?