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People who joined Lemmy in the last few days thanks to posts on /r/buyfromEU, how are you doing? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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First of all,welcome to Lemmy!

Here are a few pointers to help you settle in

Feel free if you have any questions!

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[-] yaksuu@feddit.nl 8 points 8 hours ago

A question,

How when and where does the money come from to keep lemmy running?

Since nothing is free in life who pays for lemmy?

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 4 hours ago

Volunteers. Think about it like volunteering for your local community. Like a football coach or something.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago

The server admins pay for it. Or people donate to the instance to keep it running

[-] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 hours ago

And on that note, consider donating to the instance and/or the Lemmy devs (and any other open-source project you find useful). I also need to make a round of donations soon!

[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago

Divide by zero (the instance I'm on) takes donations. People who donate get a nifty flair in the governance threads, but you don't have to donate to vote on issues the server faces. (We also allow non-members to vote, though since they're not as impacted by decisions made for the instance, their votes are given lower weights.)