Calling for donations! We’re running Lemmy.World for you to use for free, however the running costs aren’t for free… If you appreciate our services and are willing and able to help out paying the bills, please consider a donation on one of these platforms:

We have a blog with overview of the running costs, which is severely outdated… I will update this before the next call for donations: https://blog.mastodon.world/

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I just signed up for a €7/mo recurring. I used to buy reddit gold, but now I’m here on Lemmy, so thank you for putting the call out there. And the only reason I mention the amount and post this comment is to encourage others to donate as well. Especially a recurring amount.

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Is there a financial summary of sorts? That outlines expenses and categories?

    I was honestly pretty surprised to open this and realize the call for donations doesn’t have an included transparency report.

    It’s probably a heavy lift, but something like that can bring considerable confidence to users who want to support you financially.

  • BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I was going to donate $5 per month, but I had second thoughts after seeing the profile picture on the donation site. I probably will still donate eventually, but I am not comfortable supporting an openly biased platform.

    …I’m new. I’ll probably donate. I just need to make sure censoring people for different opinions isnt as common as it originally seemed. The fact that I was already banned from one of the most popular communities isn’t a good sign.

    If those mods are the people that would receive the donations, then I don’t think they would use it for anything good…just a better funded echo chamber.

    • M137@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      What donation site? All the links posted here just show the mastodon.world logo, which is just a lemmy logo shaped planet on one and a speech bubble shaped planet on the others…

      • BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I didn’t use this post. It was a week ago I clicked on the link on the top screen that said “donate to Lemmy.”. I don’t know exactly who the picture was, but I could recognize it as a left-wing revolutionary. It was that Spanish dude with a beard…Chavez I think. The picture was on Patreon and I think Librapay.

        I’m not necessarily against him or left wing revolutionaries, but it felt like something the mods on News would use. After I thought about, I realized that whoever set up this instance probably controls the popular left wing communities. I would if I set up a website.

        I don’t know the history of the person in the picture, but it’s commonly used by extremists. If I see that profile picture on Reddit, it means I’m about to read a comment from someone who thinks Bernie Sanders is a far-right capitalist.