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YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated
(sh.itjust.works)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
That's useful thx for the intro.
I think it's enough for the big picture, and it enables me to make several follow up questions such as
I had no idea this was in the hands of 2 people. Do they really make a living primarily on crowd sourced funds? Exciting and scary for the future of software in general!
There's a bit more detail here. I think I saw something about NLnet funding getting renewed recently. There are other open source contributors too, but these two are the main Lemmy team.