On the Fireside Fedi interview with Jerry ( the admin of Infosec.Exchange Mastodon instance ) a scary truth was suddenly revealed ( on 34:11 ): Just to keep the instance up and running he needs to spend up to $5000 a month, pretty much out of his pocket. Donations to the instance barely cover any of that. And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.
The Lemmy devs themselves.
You just said in another comment that lemmy devs have limited time and budgets to implement better migrations tools. If i find a dev who promote a project lime that i would donate
If we all donate a little bit to the project, their budget will be larger. If their budget is larger, they can get more steady collaborators.
And even if they can’t get more people, by helping them we show we value all the work they have done already.