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Please consider supporting Lemmy development (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sunaurus@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

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Hey folks!

I'm writing this because funding for the Lemmy project has dropped to critical levels, which could seriously impact its future development.

Thanks to the generous support of our lemm.ee community, our server infrastructure costs are covered, and we even have a few months of runway. I'm deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed - lemm.ee wouldn't exist without your help.

However, infrastructure alone isn’t enough. Our servers run Lemmy software, and without ongoing development, the platform cannot grow or even be maintained.

Lemmy is an open-source project with many contributors, but the vast majority of development work has been carried out by a small group of core maintainers. A few maintainers work full-time on the project, relying solely on donations and occasional grants to support themselves.

I've seen Lemmy development up close, and the maintainers have consistently gone above and beyond what I consider the standard for small open-source teams - they are constantly writing code, mentoring contributors, and keeping everything running. Their work is essential, and without continued support, it cannot be sustained.

If you value Lemmy, please consider supporting its maintainers directly. Every bit helps.

Please check out this post for more details about how to support the maintainers: https://lemm.ee/post/63034576

Thank you for reading, I hope you have a great weekend!

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[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a (small) monthly supporter already! I wish lemmy had a way to give people a little checkbox in their profile for supporters.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social -2 points 1 week ago

or they could work to project completion and not add new features.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I started using Lemmy like 2 years ago, stopped for a long time, and came back a few months ago. I'm sure something has changed in that time, but I don't know what.

It could be because Lemmy is written in Rust, which is kind of notorious for how difficult it is to be productive in it. Or maybe it's that there aren't enough developers, or there isn't enough funding.

In any case, my motivation to help fund this project is not helped by the insufferable cuntery of the tankies in the .ml communities. Knowing that the core devs are also tankies makes me want to see it fail. Fuck those people.

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[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had made the suggestion to them that they could start offering some kind of managed hosting services for people running instances. I have a couple of instances running with a hosting provider. If I could have them running with the support of the devs then that would be awesome.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Working on Lemmy is already a fulltime job. Providing a managed hosting service would add another significant workload and leave much less time for the main development work.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That makes sense. You could always set up a simple print to order site and slap the Lemmy mouse on a bunch of stuff. I'd definitely buy something.

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[–] Kevnyon@lemm.ee -5 points 1 week ago

At the end of the day, even hardcore users are not willing to fork it over. Why? Because of all the content that is accessible without having to pay. People have gotten used to not paying for stuff like this over the years, what was going to make them start now? Development will always cost time and it will past a certain point always cost money. So many things cost money that if a site on its baby legs like Lemmy starts asking for more, you think its gonna get it? I doubt it and that sucks, but that just proves that you need that mainstream financial backing in order to host all the users and the content and it costs money, lots of it. And with hardcore users who are here before the mainstream, well, they aren't the casuals who sink money into it, just plain and simple.

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