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]

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    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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        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.

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          9 months ago

          I guess the cross server implementation would be difficult. If you buy credits on lemm.ee, and gild a lemmy.ml user, who honors it to… not show you ads?

          I guess it’s mostly just a decoration thing to support the comment/post and the server. Still, which server displays which awards could get thorny.

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      9 months ago

      I would say, through activity, not through paying. Then for activity they will get rewarded.