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best way to donate/keep Lemmy running? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by naeap@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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hi all!

so, I guess all the instances and the development itself are in need of some money to be run.

do all the instances need to survive on their own?

I'm not sure how it works in the background, but instances with a small community would still need to be able to mirror all the threads from other instances - if its community requests it
did I get this wrong?

I'm currently supporting the development through Patreon, but I guess sometime in the future l, it would be wise to split this with server costs for the instances.

or do I miss something?

thanks!

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Thanks for your support! We currently have a grant through NLnet, but it's likely over after this year, and we'll have to try to be fully community funded at that point. We might do yearly funding drives as that seems to be a good model that's not too obtrusive.

We'd also really like to add developers to our little coop, one or two especially that have already been making solid and consistent contributions.

Here's our donate page: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Liberapay is much preferred, both because it's open source, and because it smartly splits payments among your dev team equally.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

As far as running instances, yes please fund your admins and moderators for their time! Reddit notoriously takes advantage of their free labor, but we should be treating our instance runners better.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

and we’ll have to try to be fully community funded at that point

Maybe the Sovereign Techc Fund is an option for you? On the applications page they mention "open implementations of communication protocols" and also social networking.

[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're in a position to get more euro funding, have a look around here there's projects listed which seem similar(ish) in spirit https://international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/index_en so i think you might be in with a fair chance.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion!

[–] a1studmuffin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I imagine a lot of the early adopter Reddit refugees are web/mobile devs. Perhaps it's worth putting a callout to them specifically to help out on the various GitHub projects if they're looking to contribute?