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Financially supporting the Fediverse

As some of you may or may not know, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Pixelfed are all part of the fediverse and are run by individuals who spend their own money to pay for servers. Every time a large wave of users arrives, they have to upgrade their servers, making it more expensive. Can we discuss and share some ideas on how we can financially support these individuals? Perhaps through donations at sign-up?

We have to be mindful that we have to support this with something because they are not big corporations just regular people giving out to the community.

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Also, to add, if there is no grassroots financial support, they will become the big corporation.

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Thanks for putting this info out there.

I am now subbed on Patreon for Mastodon and Lemmy. I'd rather pay a couple of bucks a month than fight an algorithm and click through bullshit ads.

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Thank you for the reminder.

I actually have a monthly patreon donation going to my Mastodon instance. I need to do something similar for Lemmy.

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I saw a link somewhere to contribute to paying the bills, not sure if it was my home instance or not.

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