cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/16660104
Consider supporting Lemmy development or donating to your local server if you have the means. Peace!
I’m no expert but 1 in 50 donors doesn’t even seem too bad
Is there any transparency around the donations?
- What’s the sum of the donations?
- What’s the split between reoccurring donations and one off donations?
- How many mouths does it feed?
- How many of those mouths are full time?
- What’s the split between the mouths?
Our current donation amounts, summing from the various platforms, and live updated every few hours, are here: https://join-lemmy.org/donate
Currently we have 2 full time devs(nutomic and me, splitting ~1 dev salary, as you can see from the above link), and have 2-3 more that we’d like to add as fulltime to our little dev coop.
We’re also in the process of getting another year of funding from NLNet (we’ll announce this once its finalized), which will go to the new devs we’re trying to onboard.
Is there a difference between a donation and a sponsor? As in are the NLNet contributions included in that €4k value?
Since you’ve used different terms it makes me think they’re different.
We sometimes get one-off crypto donations, but they’re pretty rare. The totals on that site are the recurring donations / sponsors, which helps make it easier to estimate our yearly budget.
NLnet is separate from that above also, and was what made lemmy possible by letting us work on it full-time, for most of its history. We’ve been trying to shift to a sponsorship / recurring donation model, as that’s more sustainable for the future, and will let us grow the co-op better.
Ah okay, so it’s not as transparent as it seems? It sounds like some of the contributions are hidden.
No, everything is transparent.
NLnet is separate from that above also, and was what made lemmy possible by letting us work on it full-time, for most of its history.
Forgive my misunderstanding. I don’t understand this sentence then. I read it as the NLnet contributions are not included in the €4k value. May you clarify please?
Why have you chosen to not clarify?
Excellent questions. I’d be more likely to donate if there was a page answering them.
A Dev responded here https://lemmy.ml/comment/9565132
I’ve just donated!
😎 <- you
Good reminder. Subbed to patreon
Kinda reminds me of youtuber asking people to suscribe their channels because most of the users watching their videos are not suscribed, it’s not gonna change, but in this case, it would be nice if people could donate, i personally can’t, i wish, but i can’t
I can and do donate to the Lemmy project. I should also donate to the instances I use. I’ll donate for you as well, I don’t even need Netflix.
That number seems a bit low, but it’s really important to support Lemmy and your instance.
I’d love to support my instance, but it ain’t doable for now (at least it wasn’t when I looked into it around Christmas).
I also think accepting donations demand some organization with taxes and everything. That’s why some instances don’t accept them.
Hey, if you can’t swing it right now, that’s totally OK. The beauty of FOSS is how accessible it is.
Well I can but my instance doesn’t accept money for now.
I guess all the steps you have to go through to accept donations are disuading some maintainers.
How am I supposed to donate to a project that forces me to select the language at the end of each post?
Fucks sake, is it that hard to have a dropdown under settings for the default language?
And to be fair, what’s the point? The people running the biggest instances will eventually sell all their user’s data to train LLMs anyways. There’s no guarantee they won’t.
Fucks sake, is it that hard to have a dropdown under settings for the default language?
There is a language setting. Also, you don’t have to select a language, it’s optional.
The people running the biggest instances will eventually sell all their user’s data to train LLMs anyways.
Pure speculation, no evidence.
There is a language setting. Also, you don’t have to select a language, it’s optional.
See you don’t know what you’re talking about:
I’ve my languages selected yet there’s no option for a default language.
