Quick note that tchncs.de is powered by donations - because i am struggling time wise and with properly prioritizing my tasks. With the current "main" mix of tchncs.de, clients and midijob among other distractions from #life and other small stuff, I have reached (or crossed) a limit of what i can handle in that regard. The recent addition of a minijob failed and has me reflecting and reconsidering on how and why i got here and what to do about it. Some of you might already have noticed that i might answer late or even never (without an additional ping from you) for some requests, which for sure is nothing personal nor on purpose.
Until now was simply happy with costs being covered with even some additional amount of cash arriving, which by itself is quite amazing! But since i cannot furtherly increase my workload to earn more, a small increase of donating users (please not increasing donations by already donating users) would already be quite impactful for a more stable and secure income-stream. It would have me less worried and stressed about other sources of income that could break away due to me being unable to live up to expectations or because a bigger client would go away for internal reasons.
If tchncs serves you well, is part of your life for a while now and only if you can afford and really want it, please consider doing a monthly microdonation. I try to be most transparent so you can properly decide whether if or how much you want to throw into the hat, at ➡️ https://tchncs.de/donate
If you are donating already, thank you so much! Without you, tchncs.de could not have gotten this far, not even close to where its at now. ❤️
...also thanks @cronenthal, for your previous post
Thank you! I was actually quite insecure about the effect such a detailed page could have, but it didn't actually seem to make any negative impact, which is awesome. It's fun to figure out how to to generate the stuff on there automated. :)
I am sometimes considering launching a proper commercial instance, where membership requires a monthly fee. For me, having a well maintained instance is easily worth a few euros per month and it would be an interesting experiment. But I'd much rather have enthusiasts like Milan do their thing and be able to get by.
Consider this: do you want to go back to ad-financed corporate social media? Because that's what you'll get when you want your services "for free". Enthusiasm scales only so far.
https://cosocial.ca/about does this for their mastodon, it's an interesting concept and one I think worth considering.
Thank you, I've thrown 10€/month into the pool. Thanks for running this instance (and keeping ApocalypticArt alive, after feddit.de failed 🥰).
Thank you! I will for sure do my best to provide a reliable service for years to come! In the unlikely event of discontinuation, there will be multiple months or more for users to find a new home - as long as the event does not take that power away from me ;)
Thanks for the reminder. Just added a standing order. It should be executed late in the month. I started low, but i could slightly increase it. It would be nice to read an update on the situation maybe ins 1-3 months?
I think it would also be a good idea if you don't shoulder everything alone ... Single point of failure and all that. You could think about which tasks ypu could (partially) delegate to other people in order to have less workload.
It would make sense to setup a roadmap for ypu maybe? I don't think it's healthy to have administrating take up so much space that you cannot work another job.
Let us know where you might need support :-)
And thank ypu very much! I quite like it here!
Thank you very much! I will try to update if there is anything notable happening - usually a post like this from me or by users, causes a spike in donations that goes away quickly again. It would be amazing if this one was an exception. :)
I totally agree with the busfactor part. The thing is tho that I do not have real life contacts that are skilled and trusted enough to help. However there is @thomas@metalhead.club (even tho we sadly don't know each other in real life yet), who actually has emergency access to some of the tchncs servers already. We really need to complete this. However one reason why i struggle to prioritize this, is that bad things already happened in the past when i granted admin access to a supposedly trustworthy person.
My issue is not tchncs in particular, at least i'd like to think that.. i am trying to figure that out, however, tchncs is something that happened organically over the course of more than 10 years at this point. It's the result of me discovering Linux and selfhosting and is practically my self-teaching journey. Everything like the remaining part time job and clients, all that came after or/and due to tchncs. It truely is part of my identity and i couldn't give that up easily.
Yeah i din't think of complete (=admin) access. Maybe that's a good thing to keep to oneself. There could be an inheritor which would gain access if ypu would abandon the project.
But regarding lower level administration (blocking stuff, checking that rules are followed and all that - things that take up most of the time of an administrator working in social media) could ve delegated maybe? Similar to reddit moderators of subreddits. It would be nice to have transparancy of which moderator moderates which other communities.
Maybe you could think of a way of finding some people in real life that could be a promising candidate.
I know you explicitly said I shouldn't do that, but just to spite you, I redoubled my donation. Thank you for all your hard work!
LiberaPay yearly donation also online, thank you for the reminder and for your awesome work Milan, you are a pillar of the Fediverse 🫡
Thank you Milan for all the work you put into your services and the administration. You are an awesome guy and that's why I increased my donation a bit. You are worth every penny. 💚
Thank you! PayPal is not a very likeable platform and i would prefer not to offer it at all for weird events in the past. But at least right now, that account is not marked as a business account. If you send as friend, (assumingly) via the linked PayPal donationpage and not via Liberapay, no fees should take place. Via Liberapay counts as a business transaction, still. I am not 100% certain as to whether there are gotchas from other countries tho.
Good point, I should set up something permanent. I have only ever done PayPal or bank transfer one-offs. Can I find an overview of the Liberapay, Patreon and so forth to see who they are, what cut they take and why I would pick one over the other?
LiberaPay doesn't take a cut, they are financed directly by supporters on their own LiberaPay page, and you can donate the amount you choose.
Paypal takes 3-5% I don't know the exact rate, Patreon takes 10% as from August this year (5% until 2019, currently 8%)
Thanks! This makes LiveraPay sound pretty neat!
Actually, Stripe as well as PayPal via Liberapay take a fee, still. ;) Those are the providers that Liberapay uses. Still a nice platform - thanks for considering to donate regularily and thanks for the previous donations! :)
ack thank you for clarifying that! hard to escape payment provider fees, i should actually switch back to the permanent SEPA wire transfers, i switched bank and forgot to restore it ;_;
Just set up recurring donations on Liberapay. Thanks for your hard work and all the best for the future!
🚀 A big thank you to you kind donors. Last month all records were broken in a big spike of not only incoming donations by person count, but also with the total amount. Approximated 281 people decided to donate vs 199 the month before. While some of you went with mindblowing one-time or yearly donations (hey, i was asking for monthly micro!-donations xD), it would be amazing if this actually results in more average monthly donors.
Looking at those numbers actually leaves me a bit speechless... just.. wow. Thanks a ton!
Im in dispo, but what does 1€ more or less every month matter now. And if every user thinks that way, it will matter to you. Will setup a dauerauftrag when I get home today
1€ im Monat macht den braten auch nicht fett ;)
I so can relay to your post. I'm in the same boat and I think a lot of ethical hosters out there are. Specially this "The recent addition of a minijob failed and has me reflecting and reconsidering on how and why i got here and what to do about it." struck me so much I had to post. I wish you all the best and hope your users will realize the amount of work and stress and tears it takes to run such an awesome platform for so many years by a dedicated crazy german farmer kido ❤️
As one admin with major issues trying to come out of burnout and ( i guess depressive state) to the other. Don't loose hope and keep up the good work.
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I actually use your donation page as an example for good donation transparency sometimes. Thanks for all your work. Sending some funds your way right now.
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