Please, tell me how “paying for hardware costs is enough”…

  • @[email protected]OP
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    202 months ago

    You are the exception, and you will find out that even the most prolific participants here claiming that $5 per year is enough to cover the hardware costs, so he doesn’t see any reason to give more than that.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 months ago

          Shit aint free.

          I mean when we were over at (the bad place), people were literally donating monthly to pay for server costs. (the bad place) in the early days was basically one giant instance.

          except it didnt have a working video player. for-fucking-ever.

          so I donate a bit to my mortal enemy @desalines and a bit to lemmy.world to keep the project going. Maybe 5 bucks a month between the two?

      • Ruud
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        112 months ago

        For lemmy.world / mastodon.world including some of the smaller instances we host, it’s like 0,06 euro per active user per month. If every active user would pay 2 Euro per year that would be enough to cover hosting costs. If every active user would pay 1 euro per month, I could quit my dayjob and focus on the Fediverse fulltime.

        (Sidenote: Stux and I created the non-profit Fedihosting Foundation which owns lemmy.world … but finances are still separate for his and my instances)

          • Ruud
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            52 months ago

            Sending e-mail to info at lemmy dot world would be the best option. The team will pick that up.

            (By the way: 2 EUR per year would be enough if every active user would donate that but they don’t)

            • Blaze (he/him)
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              42 months ago

              Thanks, I might send an email later.

              By the way: 2 EUR per year would be enough if every active user would donate that but they don’t

              Indeed. Have you thought about promoting this in an announcement post?

          • @[email protected]OP
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            -12 months ago

            Phrased another way: “I don’t think you are allowed to make a living out of the work you do here, so thank you for accepting all this for free”.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        -12 months ago

        The list of statements where you have the chance to share your values is still unanswered.