It's ironic that, while lemmy's strength is ideological freedom (for admins), it's undoing is people being too ideologically different.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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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.
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.
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.
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?
I think Mbin and Piefed are the two active ones.
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.
Kbin died, forked to Mbin last I knew.
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?
Directly. Nutomic and the other dev mod and manage the tankie instances, and Nutomic himself is a known transphobe.
Good idea. Your link is formatted incorrectly however. Here's the post.
Edit:ironically I messed it up too.
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Not giving a cent to those transphobes.
Transphobes? Do you have a link?
There's a new thread and an older pinned one in !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works that gives context.
This one https://sh.itjust.works/post/23147589
To me this looks like typical communist stuff blaming everything that happens on capitalism and the bourgeoisie.
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.
... does that change who gets the money?
No, it still goes to Dessalines and nutomic. This just clarifies that donations are split, depending on how you donate, to .ml or to ~~tankies~~ the development of Lemmy.
The reason nutomic made this announcement was because there was a vocal push back by some users who want to support Lemmy, but do not want to support the .ml instance costs.
And in proper tankie fashion, it has the shape of that intent, but it doesn't seem to mean a damn thing. It is rhetorical cover.
The mascot for this service should be a trolley.
There is this comment too, which contradicts what nutomic is now saying
In a recent discussion in the Matrix chat, it was mentioned that donations to support development have recently fallen off quite steeply. I mentioned my reason for not donating anymore is because I can't support anyone who runs an instance like .ml. nutomic@lemmy.ml said I could donate directly to him since he doesn't do as much moderation over there, but also mentioned that donations for development go towards server costs for .ml. Hell no.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18374613
Edit: bolding is in the original comment, not mine
set up $1 monthly. Not a lot but it covers my impact
Just set up $10/mo donations. Lemmy, the fediverse, and decentralization is incredibly important now, and we cannot afford to lose it
Send them a little surprise on their ETH address :)) will have to double down on libera pay or Kofi in fiat
wait why do they actually need money?
Lemmy already works
Things break, maintainance is required periodically, softwares libraries need to be updated timely and don't forget new features or fix implementations. Everything whether hobby or not takes time and effort and it shall be paid for eventually
Lemmy is work in progress. New updates bring new features, fix bugs, ....
Always room for refinements