[Fixed] Donation platforms for Lemmy.World
There's some unrest because the Open Collective Foundation is stopping.
Don't worry, we use Open Collective Europe as a donations platform, they're going nowhere.
We've added some donation platforms, so if you would like to support us running our .world servers, you can do so here:
And for those wanting to donate crypto:
- Monero address:
83tnuFN4f28jRxTBW9qGDad2U23qNE5nfeW4Pfyd85oWMW7J9gqpXi3S8FDbX5uEeCAKcGnSpS2XT5dGwYiELthg8XuDrxH - Cardano address:
addr1v9qv6xvfwcx9ny56uag4umu6238sw2e7ff2kcxl3qe7p9esayjxgu
Thank you!
[Edit] Some of the links were broken, they should now all work! [Edit 20240314: Added Liberapay]
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For this who are confused
The statement.
https://opencollective.com/foundation/updates/announcement-we-are-dissolving-open-collective-foundation-at-the-end-of-this-year
And the clarification of entities.
https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/
Furthermore, a statement from Open Collective Europe: https://opencollective.com/europe/updates/regarding-the-announcement-to-dissolve-open-collective-foundation-us
Reddit gold was such a great method of voluntary monetization. It'd be great if Lemmy would support something like that (although there are a ton of caveats.)
I had a $30/year subscription to Reddit for more than a decade.
The real danger isn't on Lemmy.World, where I think the money would go where intended. The real danger is incentivizing people to spin up small instances in the hopes of collecting.
Great point, this will happen instantly.
That won't work. I have 340k users on my servers and it just covers the running cost. So with a 100 user instance you would get peanuts.
I guess the cross server implementation would be difficult. If you buy credits on lemm.ee, and gild a lemmy.ml user, who honors it to... not show you ads?
I guess it's mostly just a decoration thing to support the comment/post and the server. Still, which server displays which awards could get thorny.
I would say, through activity, not through paying. Then for activity they will get rewarded.
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There is such a method! Sign up to a paid-member only instance. $29/year gives you an account at Mastodon, Lemmy, Matrix and Funkwhale.
Would any form of crypto donations be interesting as well? Personally a great fan of Monero.
Our Monero address is
83tnuFN4f28jRxTBW9qGDad2U23qNE5nfeW4Pfyd85oWMW7J9gqpXi3S8FDbX5uEeCAKcGnSpS2XT5dGwYiELthg8XuDrxHPlease add the crypto addresses to the site sidebar under donations. You also may want to consider accepting BTC, BCH and LTC. Glad your accepting XMR though for private donations.
Awesome!
How are you covering cash into crypto without paying bonkers fees? I tried to do it via coinbase and the fees are insane. Fuck that.
You can use exchanges like Coinbase Advanced Trading and Kraken Pro to interact directly with the order book. They use the standard maker/taker model. 0.6% for takers on Coinbase Advanced Trading and 0.26% for takers on Kraken Pro. You can use "market" orders if all you want is a buy button and a sell button
Is there tutorials for this somewhere?
I have used https://localmonero.co/ in the past.
Which one of the platforms do you all get more money? I want to donate but I know each of the services get a cut.
Ko-Fi or PayPal directly, or crypto
As a basic principal crypto has the lowest transaction fees. I'm not a lemmy dev so idk what they prefer, but general rule is crypto is cheapest.
I seriously doubt Bitcoin fees are less than PayPal
EDIT: I just checked and the bitcoin transfer fee over the last 3 years was about $1-2, but it has been around $10 the last 3 months. PayPal charges a $2 fee for a $30 payment. The difference is a lot less than I expected.
Oh, and Ruud is a sysadmin of the lemmy.world instance, not a Lemmy dev.
EDIT 2: Ko-fi seems to take a 0% fee on one time transactions.
for small amounts of money, PayPal, cash app whatever is cheap to free, but if you need to send thousands of dollars and convert your currency from USD to Euro or whatever crypto is the cheapest way to do it.
Once you hit the millions mark, strangely enough, it again becomes cheaper to use fiat. For 1,000,000 USD, Kraken Pro's fee rate is 0.18%, or 1,800 USD to buy and 1,800 USD to sell, totalling 3,600 USD plus exchange rate risk. A USD wire transfer usually costs 20-35 USD to send and 0-10 USD to receive.
Thanks for running this. I donated as long as i was able to, but had to stop recently due to my personal financial situation.
Hm, we are missing the "reporting for duty" emoji.
🫡 Thanks for the donation!
o7 is always there, no emojis needed
o7
Are there any plans to use Liberapay? All of the donation platforms above don't support my home currency while Liberapay does
We will look into adding the donation platform.
If there is nothing that blocks us then we will add it.
Thanks!
I added a Liberapay link: https://liberapay.com/fhf/
Thanks! Unfortunately it's still only accepting donations in Euro
Just donated. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Thanks!!
Hmm. Why does Lemmy mess up the links...
Is there any preference for y’all on Opencollective vs Patreon? I would us Ko-Fi but not in a place right now to do $5/month, and that seems to be the minimum.
Ohh I didn't know there was a minimum setting in Ko-Fi. I changed the minimum there to 1. Thanks!
Ooo fantastic, I’ll switch over to Ko-Fi!
what's wrong with patreon?
They said in the post that Ko-Fi is preferred due to the lower fees
ah, i tought patreon was in something bad
Happy to donate a little bit!
Cant donate today but will soon. Is there any info on current funding levels/cost to run/goals trying to be reached?
We keep that at https://blog.mastodon.world (I know, I'm behind with that...)
Does lemmy not get its money from the trevi fountain?
The Ko-Fi link seems to be broken.
Yeah almost all links were broken, not sure how. I edited them, saved and they were broken again... For now it seems it's fixed.
Is this going to be pinned to the fucking top for the rest of eternity?
THIS is why we need to be allowed to block admins.
It's also an option to just ask if it can be unpinned. You're welcome. Have a nice day.
Don't bother, I know that person likes to go out of their way to step on everyone's toes for some unresolved issues.
I don't want to ruin things for everyone I just get a lot less interested in donating the number of times I'm reminded to.