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Supporting Lemmy software development (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/announcements@sh.itjust.works
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Hello, sh.itjust.works community!

A few months ago we began accepting donations to help cover the hosting and equipment costs of running this instance. We have been overwhelmed by your generosity and support! It truly exceeded our expectations. Thank you so much for helping to keep this instance running.

We would like to take an opportunity today to encourage everyone to also support Lemmy software development. We would not be here without the years of work that the software devs have put into creating this tool. There are certainly some users here with strong political opinions toward the lead developers. However, at the end of the day, we are all creating and maintaining this community together.

Nutomic recently posted a request for donations. Please take a look and consider sending some support their way:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/37276606

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[-] TRAHR@sh.itjust.works 11 points 23 hours ago

Not giving a cent to those transphobes.

[-] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly, given most of the devs' track record in terms of things like recognizing human rights, I'm not particularly comfortable with giving them money.

One alternative for those who still want to support the Fediverse without giving money to tankies and transphobes would be donating to content creators or even commissioning work that can be shared here. Artists and those who make the content we consume deserve to be paid for their work, and esspecially if this work is Fediverse OC (or coming from a supporter of the Fediverse) it will still help maintain or expand the Fediverse. A social network is as much the content and users on it as it is the tech behind it.

[-] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

One alternative for those who still want to support the Fediverse without giving money to tankies and transphobes

Another idea: Are there other fediverse compatible lemmy alternatives?

[-] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

I think Mbin and Piefed are the two active ones.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Kbin

I don't know how it's going, but a friend of mine was against Lemmy from the get go and dropped out of taking part in it, because of the people that jumped onto Lemmy to develop and how impossible it was to reason with them.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago

Kbin died, forked to Mbin last I knew.

[-] Tigrafale@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

This is definitely a conflict for me. On the one hand, the money goes towards furthering the development of Lemmy. On the other hand, it goes towards (indirectly, but still) supporting Chinese and Russian online propaganda. Is there no one else contributing towards the development of Lemmy that we can donate to?

[-] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Directly. Nutomic and the other dev mod and manage the tankie instances, and Nutomic himself is a known transphobe.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

set up $1 monthly. Not a lot but it covers my impact

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

New pinned comment from nutomic

Update: For those of you who want to support Lemmy development without financing the hosting of lemmy.ml, know that the hosting is paid exclusively through OpenCollective. You can see the payment details at this link. This means donations through all other platforms (Liberapay, Ko-fi, Patreon, Crypto) are exclusively for Lemmy development, and not a single cent goes to lemmy.ml hosting.

[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

wait why do they actually need money?

Lemmy already works

[-] xman080@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

Lemmy is work in progress. New updates bring new features, fix bugs, ....

[-] masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Just set up $10/mo donations. Lemmy, the fediverse, and decentralization is incredibly important now, and we cannot afford to lose it

[-] MonsterCity7732@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago

Yeah, regardless of your opinions of the devs it's probably a good idea to support the project so we can continue to expect updates in the future.

[-] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

Damn, 2500 a month for developing software is all y'all want? That's an absolute steal. I appreciate the work y'all do, and glad you posted this. I wasn't aware of what happened to keep this site working.

[-] loaf@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

Thank you guys for giving us an awesome Lemmy home!

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago

Love you all

Endless knowledge, news, and joy

THANK YOU financial, time, skill contributors to both our community and the development of the software

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Good idea. Your link is formatted incorrectly however. Here's the post.

Edit:ironically I messed it up too.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Fixed! Thank you.

[-] hector@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Send them a little surprise on their ETH address :)) will have to double down on libera pay or Kofi in fiat

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