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Would the Beehaw community be interested in some pay-it-forward action? (beehaw.org)
submitted 10 months ago by admin@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Currently, we have $6,500.91 in our hopper.

It just seems weird having all of those, mostly, unused funds sitting there doing nothing.

I just wanted to start the conversation about the possibility of paying-it-forward in some capacity. For example, a certain percentage of monthly contributions could go to a charity.

What are your thoughts?

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[โ€“] Lionir@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Beehaw has enough to run without any additional donations for the next two years at the current costs so the finances of that seems well enough.

That said, I don't feel comfortable spending money donated to Beehaw for things non-Beehaw related.

As for expanding in other services.. Well, we already have enough trouble with Lemmy, I would not want to add more moderation hurdles personally.

[โ€“] fwygon@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Mastodon, for example, would have far better moderation tools than lemmy. As for your concerns with "Adding more moderation hurdles", genuinely I feel recruiting more mods before and while you spin up a service is fine. That may mean you take time to pick them out and train them right. That's fine. But I don't think moderation challenges are insurmountable.