Lemmy devs expressed in an AMA that Liberapay is the preferred method of donation.
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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It's nice how fast Lemmy is growing, but I think it is a good idea to manage expectations. In the world of free and open source software you can't just throw money at the problem to make it better. The development of Lemmy will occur at will whenever someone feels like contributing. It's not someones job to develop Lemmy so it isn't guaranteed to happen at all.
Edit: Just for clarification I'm not suggesting to not donate. I'm just saying donating doesn't guarantee development.
It actually is someone's job at the moment; NLNet gave a grant to Dessalines and Nutomic to work on it IIRC
Interesting news. Thank you for the clarification. Is there any announcement about this?
This appears to be from 3 years ago and only funds to last 6 months. Has there been any additional funding since then?
They mentioned the current numbers in their AMA in !announcements@lemmy.ml .
From what I remember, they are still being funded at the moment.
How do I give a one-time donation? And not a monthly donation.
I did a custom amount annual donation with manual renewal on librepay, that seems to be the easiest. Otherwise you could send crypto to one of the wallet addresses they linked.
Yes, that is the best way. Liberapay is also great as it doesn't take any commission itself (although if you actually use liberapay frequently, it would be a good idea to also donate to them!).
Thanks for the quick link, just donated.
Just threw in couple bucks, thanks devs
I’m already donating :)
I donated some money, but do the links in the "donate" link support Lemmy.ml or Lemmy.world or both?
I subscribe to mostly Lemmy.world instances, and have a Lemmy.world account. Which community makes the most sense for me to support?
https://join-lemmy.org/support goes to the Lemmy developers not to any particual instance though lemmy.ml is hosted by the Lemmy developers. Each individual instance have their own support methods in the sidebar.
I will say that I would be a lot more willing to donate if the soft ban on Ukraine news was lifted.
Tell me more? I see Ukraine news. Usually browse by top 6 hour or hot.
Ah it's just lemmy.ml with the soft ban. The main "dev" instance.
What is a soft ban?
Ah ok, thank you. Yeah that would be a barrier to donation for me too. Seems odd.
I don't really feel motivated since Lemmy is centralized now on Lemmy.world. It would have been great with a decentralized network, but sadly we didn't get there.
The value of Lemmy for me is in its decentralized nature. Otherwise we may as well use reddit or some other centralized corp service.
With almost all users, communities and links going to Lemmy.world... Let's just say I don't want to pay for another centralized network.
The Lemmy software itself is decentralized though, and if the software gets better we all benefit from it.
I feel like Lemmy.world will benefit, not so much everyone else.
If donating directly to the two main Lemmy developers, then every instance benefits lol
In the way of getting better mod tools, sure.
Well, I think bug fixes and general improvements is a good thing too
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