• BedSharkPal@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    8 months ago

    I know people like to shit on the Reddit gold concept. But I still think it makes sense and is one of the least obtrusive ways to raise funds sustainably.

    • ohlaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      And it was fun to let people know how much you appreciated their comment ot post.

    • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      That wouldn’t really work in federation, unless the reddit gold mechanic is tied to that specific instance.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    I think it’s a symptom of Lemmy’s core premise - where do I direct funds as the “common” user (read as less technically sophisticated)? To access and engage with Lemmy I…

    1. use an app…
    2. that channels a specific server…
    3. contained within are individual mods that maintain communities and curate content…
    4. and all of that lives within the larger “world” of Lemmy as an idea

    There are many hands in that chain. Your dedicated users can handle negotiating that decision maybe, but the “common” user cannot - and this post is trying to discuss Lemmy at scale, so you’re talking about that “common” user.

    Again, it’s counter to the founding spirit of Lemmy, but we’re missing a centralized path to supporting all of the distributed hands doing work on this idea. Not an easy problem to solve, but one that should be acknowledged.

  • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Ugh! Can’t they just monetize the sale of our personal data and push nauseating ads every other post… like any other respectable post aggregation platform?

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      Ads they won’t (At least I believe so.) But I won’t be surprised that some data harvesting companies have servers set up to collect all the data, aggregate, and sell it. Lemmy is an openly federated platform after all.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        sell it

        Sell it? For what, 0 dollars? If anyone wants the data, they can just set up an instance themselves.

        The data is freely available. Just like open source stuff.

        • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          The vaule of the data totally relies on the aggregation process. It involves grouping, categorizing, and linking the unstructured data into a relatable and structured format. For example, A data harvesting company can use their own existing data and link a Lemmy user to a known identity or the probability to a known identity, using techniques like NLP and statistics. That’s value.

          Data most of the time are free, but there are also datasets sold for a price.

  • NotBadAndYou@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    I’m assuming 1172 is a count of donations to official mainstream servers. I have definitely contributed to my local server.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I think it’s only donations to the development team. Summing up the donors across Liberapay, Open Collective and Patreon gives close to the number in the title.

      • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
        0·
        8 months ago

        I am a Patreon supporter of the developers. It’s that the best way to support the project?

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          The Lemmy project - yes. You want to check if your home instance is sustainably funded too. I think lemmy.world for example is well funded. So is lemmy.ca - my home instance.

          • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            I know for a fact that DB Zer0 could use some love, and their admin has created a lot of extra tools that have helped the Fediverse manage abusive instances. If your instance is well funded, but you would still like to donate somewhere to show your support, I highly suggest you check them out.

            Their donation links are in their sidebar.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Word. The large instances are well funded at the moment. I think the funding is lacking on the developer side. Subscribe if you can. I have. :)

    • Thrashy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Frankly, given the conflicting priorities and attitudes of the two primary Lemmy devs compared to the needs of instance admins, I’d rather the better-funded instances pooled some of their excess and funded an independent contributor to work on mod tools, GDPR issues, and other things that operators are concerned about that have been backburnered by the current devs.

      • FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        Wasn’t there some guy who wanted a total of 8 dollars to fix the GDPR issue and they didn’t get funded? Something tells me the operators aren’t too concerned

  • danhab99@programming.devEnglish
    31·
    8 months ago

    TBH I’d be willing to pay $1/month. If every Lemmy user did that I think it would be plenty to keep the servers hot.

  • jussi@lemmy.duck.cafeEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    I did try donating for Lemmy through Liberapay using the link in this post but canceled the process when I saw that the money recipient was “peertube.social”, which I don’t use. I’d feel better donating if the money went to Lemmy and not Peertube.

      • jussi@lemmy.duck.cafeEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I mean when I navigate to the Lemmy’s donation page and proceed with setting up a recurring payment, my bank asks for confirmation of the transaction. During this, my bank identifies the recipient as “PeerTube.social”. I find it a bit confusing, but I guess the other Lemmy founder also owns peertube.

  • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    i was once told to hotlink images from other hosters… as opposed to uploading to lemmy. (to save on resources!)

    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      02·
      8 months ago

      Hotlinking is stealing. Besides servee owner could change the images your hotlinking to. Or he coukd delete it altogether

      • nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        The web is built on hot linking hypermedia. It is more fragile obviously, but it distributes the bandwidth and storage load. If nobody hotlinked, then small forum admins/Lemmy admins/etc. have considerably more cost to bear.

      • FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        8 months ago

        If the server owner isn’t fine with others hottlinking they can simply deny requests not related to there website(s). On that note, I hope you are donating to your instance, otherwise by your logic you are stealing there resources.

        • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I hope you are donating to your instance, otherwise by your logic you are stealing there resources.

          How is that my logic? Admins of my instance are fine with people using their instance without donation so there is nothing unethical here. If people must pay to use their instance then it can’t be called “donation”, it’s called “payment”.

          If the server owner isn’t fine with others hottlinking they can simply deny requests

          Can I use same logic to say if you are not fine with people robbing your home, you must lock your door?

          • FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            Admins of my instance are fine with people using their instance Fair enough, it appears they are completely happy for you to use up a small piece of there resources

            If you can’t be bothered to spend 5 minutes to put up the magical “do not use my resources” message (origin: Same-site) in your site’s headers, then I think people would believe that using up a portion of your bandwidth is fine and act accordingly.

  • Muscar@discuss.onlineEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    53k monthly active users is way less than I expected. But makes sense with how slow things are here.