There’s some unrest because the Open Collective Foundation is stopping.
Don’t worry, we use Open Collective Europe as a donations platform, they’re going nowhere.
We’ve added some donation platforms, so if you would like to support us running our .world servers, you can do so here:
And for those wanting to donate crypto:
- Monero address:
83tnuFN4f28jRxTBW9qGDad2U23qNE5nfeW4Pfyd85oWMW7J9gqpXi3S8FDbX5uEeCAKcGnSpS2XT5dGwYiELthg8XuDrxH - Cardano address:
addr1v9qv6xvfwcx9ny56uag4umu6238sw2e7ff2kcxl3qe7p9esayjxgu
Thank you!
[Edit] Some of the links were broken, they should now all work! [Edit 20240314: Added Liberapay]
For this who are confused
The statement.
https://opencollective.com/foundation/updates/announcement-we-are-dissolving-open-collective-foundation-at-the-end-of-this-yearAnd the clarification of entities.
https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/Reddit gold was such a great method of voluntary monetization. It’d be great if Lemmy would support something like that (although there are a ton of caveats.)
I had a $30/year subscription to Reddit for more than a decade.
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There is such a method! Sign up to a paid-member only instance. $29/year gives you an account at Mastodon, Lemmy, Matrix and Funkwhale.
I think Reddit gold can be benign, but let’s not exploit FOMO plz. That’s how we got loot boxes and micro payments.
How to do “Reddit gold” on Lemmy, in a non-exploitive and ethical way? That would be the rub.
The real danger isn’t on Lemmy.World, where I think the money would go where intended. The real danger is incentivizing people to spin up small instances in the hopes of collecting.
Great point, this will happen instantly.
That won’t work. I have 340k users on my servers and it just covers the running cost. So with a 100 user instance you would get peanuts.
Are there any plans to use Liberapay? All of the donation platforms above don’t support my home currency while Liberapay does
We will look into adding the donation platform.
If there is nothing that blocks us then we will add it.
I added a Liberapay link: https://liberapay.com/fhf/
Would any form of crypto donations be interesting as well? Personally a great fan of Monero.
Our Monero address is
83tnuFN4f28jRxTBW9qGDad2U23qNE5nfeW4Pfyd85oWMW7J9gqpXi3S8FDbX5uEeCAKcGnSpS2XT5dGwYiELthg8XuDrxHPlease add the crypto addresses to the site sidebar under donations. You also may want to consider accepting BTC, BCH and LTC. Glad your accepting XMR though for private donations.
How are you covering cash into crypto without paying bonkers fees? I tried to do it via coinbase and the fees are insane. Fuck that.
Hm, we are missing the “reporting for duty” emoji.
🫡 Thanks for the donation!
o7 is always there, no emojis needed
o7
Which one of the platforms do you all get more money? I want to donate but I know each of the services get a cut.
Ko-Fi or PayPal directly, or crypto
As a basic principal crypto has the lowest transaction fees. I’m not a lemmy dev so idk what they prefer, but general rule is crypto is cheapest.
I seriously doubt Bitcoin fees are less than PayPal
EDIT: I just checked and the bitcoin transfer fee over the last 3 years was about $1-2, but it has been around $10 the last 3 months. PayPal charges a $2 fee for a $30 payment. The difference is a lot less than I expected.
Oh, and Ruud is a sysadmin of the lemmy.world instance, not a Lemmy dev.
EDIT 2: Ko-fi seems to take a 0% fee on one time transactions.
for small amounts of money, PayPal, cash app whatever is cheap to free, but if you need to send thousands of dollars and convert your currency from USD to Euro or whatever crypto is the cheapest way to do it.
Cant donate today but will soon. Is there any info on current funding levels/cost to run/goals trying to be reached?
We keep that at https://blog.mastodon.world (I know, I’m behind with that…)
Just donated. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Happy to donate a little bit!
Is there any preference for y’all on Opencollective vs Patreon? I would us Ko-Fi but not in a place right now to do $5/month, and that seems to be the minimum.
what’s wrong with patreon?
They said in the post that Ko-Fi is preferred due to the lower fees
Ohh I didn’t know there was a minimum setting in Ko-Fi. I changed the minimum there to 1. Thanks!
Ooo fantastic, I’ll switch over to Ko-Fi!
Thanks for running this. I donated as long as i was able to, but had to stop recently due to my personal financial situation.
