Thank you <3

And to everyone else as I won't reply to everyone so as not to spam up the thread :)

I have now asked the accountant I also use for my business, to help out with the foundation.

I know that we look for nonprofit-help everywhere we can, but I don't have a specific answer for you at this time, but I've marked this to see if we can answer you later, at least :)

You should share that on Twitter and Facebook.

Same. I'm a wagie and need to be careful of my spend, but this is a good set and forget.

Thank you! <3 And every bit helps, truly :)

Thank you very much! I started donating before I became an admin, so I can say that I know the feeling - this is the only site I currently donate to. For now. :)

Thank you! <3

Yes, not only is your donation appreciated, but posting about it shows others that they can. Before I was an admin, it was a thread like this with people posting that they were donating that reassured me into making a small monthly recurring donation, so comments like yours are appreciated. <3

10€ is a perfectly fine amount. Also, welcome!

Welcome to Lemmy!

I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't noticed the year, only the month, on the blog post. One of my fellow admins pointed it out, but… that's the most recent we have, so I've let it stand. lol. D'oh. It may be a little bit before someone can update that, but I'm adding some links to a few specific comments in this thread for tracking, so hopefully I can poke you when there is an update :)

(And I've only been here a couple of months as an admin, so I only know some rough numbers - I think the costs are generally not that different, but I can't swear to anything)

Quality participation with comments and/or good posts helps the community grow. Reporting rule-breaking content helps mods and admins keep the community growing as well. So monies and fucks are appreciated. er, wait, lemme rephraase that

If you can do a yearly donation that's sometimes better for projects as they minimize per-payment transfer fees

Thank you! Every bit helps!

Thank you so much! <3

Like... a blue checkmark?

Thank you, you rock! <3

I donate in USD since I'm a USian; ultimately the currency doesn't matter much, it all gets converted and sent out for the servers and such anyway :)

Thank you! <3

Thank you! <3

Thank you! :)

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I've passed the question along and if someone gives me an answer, I'll be glad to pass that along :)

From what I know, non-profits can better calculate with lower but regular payments. I make a monthly payment of two Euro which isn't the world but it's steady, ends up a similar amount per year as you, and I won't cancel this anytime soon.

Thank you very much! <3

If you do it, I will.

It absolutely does and it is appreciated. Every bit goes to costs. <3

I don't think there's a suggested amount. I can tell you that €1/mo helps, for sure. I personally donate $8/mo as it's the level I feel comfortable with. Not to encourage you to increase yours - scattered around this thread you can see a number of differing amounts, and they are all appreciated. :)

One can presume the preferred option is their preference.

Probably Liberapay. They don't take any fees because they're also funded via donations. The only fees that occur on there are the payment processors (banks, credit card companies, PayPal, etc), and you have to deal with those fees no matter what

My understanding is Ko-Fi which is why it's preferred. As others pointed out, payment processors take out some fees for card usage, and my understanding is that Ko-Fi takes the least. That said, we have options because most of them aren't too bad, and all donations help :)

Same here. I forgot I've been donating for 2 years now.

Huzzah! Thank you! :)

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I'll make sure my fellow admins see this request. :)

I'm passing this question along and tracking your comment so I can let you know when I get an answer :)

I've added a $20 and $50 tier

Hell, it's not here in California either lol it's hot as shit

You guys down there don't always get the respect you deserve, and that includes one of the hallmarks of autumn: The return of pumpkin spice everywhere. I know Starbucks serves it globally around now, but it should be an autumn thing, not a spring thing, sooooo I'd imagine y'all are used to all that.

And if not, the dropbears will get ya for disagreeing, so there's that :)

It's already semi-p2p by the way federation works. I think it would be highly ineffective to make it actually p2p.

Imagine having every user host their own community on an instance. Then you have to federate across other users to have other content in the instance, . But instead of it being 400 instances now, it's 77,000 instances all trying to stay current from various toshiba shitboxes.

Content aggregation is more of a "master list" problem than a computing problem to solve. Which is easier from a central repo.

the 90%/9%/1% rule or whatever suggests that ~90% of users won't give any effort, so any amount of friction like installing/debugging/managing/administrating their P2P setup is a no-go

There is something like that called Plebbit, it's a good example of all the downsides of such a system.

It's decentralized and "censorship proof" AKA completely unmoderated with all the spamming and unsavory content one might expect. The CSAM issue is mostly avoided because it doesn't support any kind of media sharing (only plain text) due to the bandwidth for P2P connections and avoiding having to store that on the client. Last time I checked content also simply disappears when users disconnect.

The federated system is better because it's more efficient and scales better since only a couple hundred instances have to send/receive activity instead of hundred thousands of users individually. It also helps ensure content is moderated. Admins tend to keep their own instance clean and defederate from instances that don't.

Thank you! <3

Well, it's getting on toward Halloween, so maybe we'll try to be more evil ;-)

Thank you! :)

Thank you! <3

Much appreciated, and that sounds quite appropriate. Thank you! <3

Thank you! :)

Jimmy Wales wondering why it's so hard to get enough donations:

Why can't you just block the instances you don't like on your preferred client? That's what I do, and I don't see comments from any user account on any instance I block. I think defederation should be reserved only for the most absolute eggregious problem instances. Instances the CP spammers were from, if you were around for that in the early days here, for example.

As long as they aren't spamming CP and brigading to vandalize posts and stuff, I don't think any instance should be defederated, even if I dont agree with the users there.

Like, I find Blahaj instance users generally annoying. I have never had a positive interaction I can remember with a Blahaj instance user. I can remember quite a few negative ones though. But I don't think Blahaj should be defederated. I just blocked the instance on my client and now I don't see any of their posts or comments (except via modlog, mod view, etc), they can still access communities here, and users here can still access communities there. Wins all around. My personal opinion shouldn't be a reason to remove everyone elses access to an instance they might like.

I can respect that opinion, and I will say… I have a number of people blocked. It's easy to do.

Speaking only for us here on Lemmy.World, we try to ban people who break the Lemmy.World ToS, which include issues like bigotry, incivility, spam, things like that. Not necessarily opinions with which we might disagree or find unpleasant. I think if I allowed myself to ban anyone with whom I disagreed, I would find myself quickly de-adminned, and rightfully so - it would kill the fedverse.

There are other tools for dealing with, well, tools. Including blocking on a personal level, or having community rules in place that make sense for that community that can help create spaces that are more comfortable to be in.

So while I agree with your sentiment, understanding the roles of the instance admins vs community moderators or individual choices - that's why I set up a monthly donation before I became an admin. Because Lemmy provides me with good content and communities.

Everyone is absolutely free to make their own choices. And this reply is not an attempt to beg you to donate.