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[Fixed] Donation platforms for Lemmy.World (mastodon.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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:

Ko-Fi‬ (Preferred because of low fees)
Liberapay
PayPal
Patreon
OpenCollective
Bunq

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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[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

Reddit gold was such a great method of voluntary monetization. It'd be great if Lemmy would support something like that (although there are a ton of caveats.)

I had a $30/year subscription to Reddit for more than a decade.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 4 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 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.