Hello, team at LemmyNSFW,

I'm delighted to see your instance growing and I completely support the idea of donating to ensure the longevity and quality of this platform. Your hard work in maintaining and developing this instance is very much appreciated.

However, I'd like to bring up the idea of financial transparency within our community. Have you considered using a platform like Open Collective for your donation system? It has been adopted by other instances, including Lemmy.world. You can see an example of how they use it here: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

In my opinion, Lemmy.world is a shining example of how a Lemmy instance should operate financially. They provide transparency about their finances, which has greatly contributed to building trust with their users and the platform as a whole.

Considering we're part of an open-source, decentralized platform, I believe this level of transparency is paramount. It not only helps in building trust but also encourages more users to donate, knowing exactly how their contributions will be utilized.

Moreover, seeing big instances openly donating back to the source code developers could set a wonderful precedent. This act of giving back to those who helped create the foundation of our platform would be a tremendous demonstration of gratitude and community spirit.

Again, I am wholeheartedly in support of donating to this community, and I hope my suggestion will be taken into consideration. Keep up the fantastic work!

Out of curiosity how much storage are you using either total or on average with this instance? I feel like with the amount of media being uploaded it's likely slightly larger than others.

I support you my friend both monetarily and conceptually.

An instance run so good that it caused me to start using my porn account as main account deserves some love and support. Bought a sponsor package on throne.

I set up a Patreon subscription. I am a DevOps Engineer. If you ever need to move to a more distributed setup let me know.

I joined this instance for the NSFW, but at the moment it is the best performing instance I am on, so I am subscribing to all my tech communities through here as well. In other words, my NSFW account is now my main account. LOL. Going to Patreon for sure.

EDIT: I signed up for $5/month. Keep up the good work!

PS: Would you mind sharing your docker-compose file? I want to deploy a lemmy instance on GCP to help strengthen the network.

I suggest you to use XRP, TRX and LTC for cheap transaction fees and speed, and check out a VPS provider called IONOS.

Edit: I suggest you BTW to open an OnlyFans and Fansly account for the instance and try to carry creators to the platform maybe you can make a special community for them and get some extra donations.

I would like to clean up the old comments and give a summary here.

Donations via Open Collective

Unfortunately, we cannot use Open Collective because there is no fiscal host that accepts NSFW instances.

Donations via Liberapay or Patreon

Similar scenario to Open Collective. Payment processors (PayPal and Stripe) can ban adult sites at any time.

Donations with alt coins

It is complicated to support so many different coins. Therefore, we only support ETH, XMR as the main ones. You can still donate with dozens of different coins via Trocador. All donations you make there will be merged into our XMR wallet.

Instance size

As of April 10th 25, we have 54.3GB of database and 1.48TB of media storage.

Should I host my media somewhere else to reduce costs?

No you don't need to. The media cost is not as high as one might think. At least it is at a level that we can sustain as long as we can receive donations.

Distributed setup (Kubernetes)

Although I believe it will increase performance and reliability, I don't think horizontal scaling (with multiple servers) makes sense for an instance that receives very few donations relative to the number of users. Therefore, I personally prefer vertical scaling for now.

Server location

We currently host the instance in the Netherlands (at least part of it).

Just a headsup if you're trying to get on Open Collective, it looks like that might be another patreon scenario:

Thank you so much for hosting this instance. I appreciate it and will help with a small contribution of a few dollars per month from now own. ❤️

Would it be possible to set up Liberapay as a payment method? I don't know their policy on NSFW-related projects, but I really enjoy it as a payment option since they don't take anything off what's donated, give many different donation options, and is run by a non-profit that made the site's code open-source.

I would gladly send Monero [XMR] if you had the option.

It is done. Via github if that is okay.

Thank you for doing this in the first place! Do you maybe have PayPal? Otherwise I'll look into Patreon 😊

Just subbed on Patreon! Question, are you holding off on upgrading the instance because of the issues with the search?

Where is the link to donate?

I have been locked out of my NSFW account activating the 2FA function

Seems like the least I can do. Thanks for setting this up.

Reddit had r4r communities, are we calling our communities L4Ls?

Didn't see a better place to ask this question.

Done

Done via GitHub, thanks for your work!

Tf happened here

Just saw we're down, donated on Throne to get us back in the green!

Sent some etherium.

I still don't understand crypto, but Throne appears to have worked fine. I look forward to an option with reoccurring automatic payments.

I'll donate in the morning!

I donated a couple euros now.

With GitHub sponsorship no longer an option are there any simple payment options available?Happy to support (was supporting at $10 a month) but would rather not learn crypto to do it

What would be good options for me if I just want to use my credit card to quickly buy whatever crypto and send it to any address I want? I did look at some sites a couple of days ago, but they were more for trading and didn't seem too great for this use case.

I never got into crypto even though I'm a huge nerd, so I have no idea which service is trustworthy and quick'n'easy to use.

I can't see any comments on this thread , I think there's something really wrong with the update

How would I donate via Ethereum or Monero? I've avoided all crypto.

Guys, unrelated with the donations and budget health, it would be interesting to have a open thread for discussion on this community. I was about to post about a recent purge of nsfw subreddit s and could not find where to do it.

Original discussion: https://pawb.social/post/19590203

Do you accept ETH on L2s? What about stablecoins?

Didn’t know GitHub sponsors was a thing.

Neat.

(Also: new sponsor).

If I can make one request (not that I feel you should be in any way honored to follow it up or prioritize it):

The local blur policy/implementation is horrible.

I want to just scroll through content. Everytime I log in I must update the settings.

http://wefwef.app doesn’t even give me an option to adjust it.

Chipping in with $5/mo.

What hosting provider are you using?

Sent some coins, thank you!

Got a Zcash address?

Test

Set up a github sponsorship. Thanks for setting this up and maintaining it!

Hola por estar conociendo a gente nueva les tengo una regalo 😈

Damn that's impressive!

You should add dash, ltc and a few others to your donation list. I don't hold much eth or xmr. I'd definitely send you some dash.

Hey i got a 404 trying to access that image, are you sure it still exists?

I was really surprised to see that youre using a .com-domain. That alone must be costing you a small fortune per year.