How do people feel about donating to keep things running smoothly and making sure there are adequate resources and compensation for those involved in running .world instance?
I’m curious as I think this kind of rapid growth will be the first time the model is really being tested - as in, large rapid growth in users and activity resulting in sudden higher running costs.
I feel transparent engagement would be good to understand what the current costs are, how that scales and how people involved in keeping things running are fairly compensated for their time and effort.
Also having an issue tracker, roapmap etc public and real engagement let people see who and what they are investing in.
It’s an awesome job to see the server still standing after such a huge influx!
Kinda feel like know only do the instances (like lemmy.world) need to get some decent funding, but also the devs.
The instances need to pay for hardware or hosting, plus maybe admin work (obviously people will do it for love but cash is nice too), but as a fairly fledgling platform, there’s also going to be some serious dev work needed to fix bugs, close exploits, improve efficiencies, and add features. Even the best host can be dead in the water if the underlying software has an unfixed exploit or lacks the features needed to maintain/optimize it. It’s one of the reasons people flocked to 3rd-party Reddit clients, after all (because Reddit themselves couldn’t be arsed to build up the tools themselves).
I happily am donating on patreon. Throwing in a few bucks for something I plan to use frequently is not a problem. Long live lemmy world.
I’m already giving monthly through the Patreon for Lemmy.world / Mastodon.world. So, I’m fairly comfortable!
Ah!
You have two options:
I go through Patreon, as I also contribute to a local news site and to the Mastodon developer team (… and so I can snoop in their Discord, which is Patreon only). I believe there is a preference for OpenCollective as a platform of choice.
I already signed up for the $5/month Patreon for lemmy.world and I would happily do more if Lemmy really takes off. I have no issue paying a nominal amount of money to support a community that I’m part of.
I will have no problem throwing money their way. I’m not stingy when it comes to a service I use. Especially when it’s done out of passion, and those involved are dumping their free time and personal income into it, without expected returns. Anything FOSS falls into that category. I donate to my Torrent site, my Linux Distro’s developers, etc. Someday, when I win the Lottery, I’ll drop them all bags of money. Until then, I’ll throw you guys (lemmy.world) what I can…
