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this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2024
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I've tried to hit support for the Lemmy instance and the Peertube instance - and for the Matrix instance too - both through forms, emails and in the support chat thing in the shell account. Nobody answers, ever. It's like crickets in here.
The only email address that answers and provides help is membership@sdf.org.
There's also going to https://sdf.org/?subscribe, scrolling to the 2nd from the bottom row "Support SDF's efforts in the fediverse", and use that form to send them money specifically to support the fediverse services. If they get more money for the fediverse, they'll pay more attention to the needs of the fediverse. Right now they're more focused on migrating to a new array for their MetaARPA subscribers.
I wish they also used something else than PayPal. Perhaps OpenCollective.
PayPal’s been around for like 25 years now. SDF is the sort of organization that sticks to solutions that meet their needs, not switch to whatever new thing is becoming trendy. If you’re feeling all anti-corporate and PayPal offends your sensibilities, they’ve been accepting payments by check for even longer than they’ve accepted PayPal.
SDF even accepts cash via mail, including EUR. Then the problem is mailing money from Slovakia. Slovak Post doesn't allow money of any value in regular mail sent abroad. And the alternative is too expensive.
I don't have a problem donating money via PayPal. I did so with KDE, Linux Mint and some others. But guest payments to SDF don't work from Slovakia, just like with Videolan. But Videolan at least allows sending money directly to their account.
Guest payments? Like a PayPal payment without a PayPal account?
Yep.
It's not limited to donations. I've done payments like this on Discogs.com
Also found this on bboard:
Maybe they need to start staggering their renewals so all the fediverse servers don't expire at once.
I will try to remember this tip. Thanks!