Between Lemmy.world desperately needing new mod tools, Lemmy.ee disabling image uploads, and the two main Lemmy.ml devs working on Lemmy for less than minimum wage, I want to urge and remind everyone to please Donate!
The Lemmy devs have refused advertisements, refused collaboration with Meta, and focused all of their efforts (and then more) to support the wave of users who left Reddit. The Lemmy devs did this, as they let the work owed to their sponsor take the back seat, to give everyone here today reading this message the best experience possible.
Lemmy is already at 1% the size of Reddit, but only has 2 full time employees. Not only do they deserve more for the gruelling hours they’ve put in, but so does everyone else who’s contributed too.
https://join-lemmy.org/support
Lemmy devs expressed in an AMA that Liberapay is the preferred method of donation.
It’s nice how fast Lemmy is growing, but I think it is a good idea to manage expectations. In the world of free and open source software you can’t just throw money at the problem to make it better. The development of Lemmy will occur at will whenever someone feels like contributing. It’s not someones job to develop Lemmy so it isn’t guaranteed to happen at all.
Edit: Just for clarification I’m not suggesting to not donate. I’m just saying donating doesn’t guarantee development.
It actually is someone’s job at the moment; NLNet gave a grant to Dessalines and Nutomic to work on it IIRC
Interesting news. Thank you for the clarification. Is there any announcement about this?
This appears to be from 3 years ago and only funds to last 6 months. Has there been any additional funding since then?
Found it:
They mentioned the current numbers in their AMA in [email protected] .
From what I remember, they are still being funded at the moment.
How do I give a one-time donation? And not a monthly donation.
I did a custom amount annual donation with manual renewal on librepay, that seems to be the easiest. Otherwise you could send crypto to one of the wallet addresses they linked.
Yes, that is the best way. Liberapay is also great as it doesn’t take any commission itself (although if you actually use liberapay frequently, it would be a good idea to also donate to them!).
Thanks for the quick link, just donated.
Just threw in couple bucks, thanks devs
I’m already donating :)
I will say that I would be a lot more willing to donate if the soft ban on Ukraine news was lifted.
Tell me more? I see Ukraine news. Usually browse by top 6 hour or hot.
Ah it’s just lemmy.ml with the soft ban. The main “dev” instance.
What is a soft ban?
Ah ok, thank you. Yeah that would be a barrier to donation for me too. Seems odd.
I donated some money, but do the links in the “donate” link support Lemmy.ml or Lemmy.world or both?
I subscribe to mostly Lemmy.world instances, and have a Lemmy.world account. Which community makes the most sense for me to support?
https://join-lemmy.org/support goes to the Lemmy developers not to any particual instance though
lemmy.mlis hosted by the Lemmy developers. Each individual instance have their own support methods in the sidebar.deleted by creator
I don’t really feel motivated since Lemmy is centralized now on Lemmy.world. It would have been great with a decentralized network, but sadly we didn’t get there.
The value of Lemmy for me is in its decentralized nature. Otherwise we may as well use reddit or some other centralized corp service.
With almost all users, communities and links going to Lemmy.world… Let’s just say I don’t want to pay for another centralized network.
The Lemmy software itself is decentralized though, and if the software gets better we all benefit from it.
I feel like Lemmy.world will benefit, not so much everyone else.
If donating directly to the two main Lemmy developers, then every instance benefits lol
In the way of getting better mod tools, sure.
Well, I think bug fixes and general improvements is a good thing too
Lemmy needs less political extremists shitting up every thread they go to
You’re suggesting a policy change in a Lemmy thread.
No
As soon as lemmy blocks REDDIT from being linked from this site.
Block that POS reddit site from being linked on Lemmy, it’s always linked on Lemmy, it’s like Lemmy is a fucking reddit side-site.
Your PFP is literally a reddit avatar
Troll = BUSTED LMAO
Lemmy is a link aggregation site. The entire purpose is to link to other sites.
Lemmy is a link aggregation site. The entire purpose is to link to other sites.
Lemmy was created because of reddit fucking BS, and there is no reason to allow reddit URL to appear on this site.
Lemmy is years old. It wasn’t created when you decided to join. Lmao
Lemmy was created because of reddit fucking BS
Lol, no.
That’s all Reddit was when it started too- a link aggregator Digg side-site.
Let natural growth run its course, and curate your communities better to see less Reddit content. I spent an afternoon discovering communities thst weren’t built on reposts and see quite a decent amount of original content, and actively hide all the reddit-linked content.
They will not ever be blocking Reddit content because that will be the early death of this platform. Besides, devs choosing to hard block sites in the back end is a horrible, horrible precedent. Learn to deal with it.
How?
actively hide all the reddit-linked content.
Block the lemmit.online and irradiated bots that just spam reddit links, as well as basically every community from lemmit.online Then add reddit to your uBlock lists so any accidental direct links just get blackholed. Bam, reddit is gone from your life.
I don’t know what communities you subscribe to, but I almost never see Reddit links here.
perusing ‘everything’ is where you’ll run across the reddit-y kind of stuff
Some clients do this now… url blocking, also word filters.
In your settings you can hide posts from bots
Or just block the lemmit bot like someone else said
So you have no idea, got it.
Block the keyword in your settings?? …
HOW???
Are you using the official lemmy webapp, or an app?
Pretty sure there was a browser extension that blocks posts containing keywords in the lemmy webapp IIRC but can’t remember what it’s called, if you do a search for a community called Lemmy Apps you should find one there
https://lemmy.world/post/465785
Aside from that, if you’re on mobile most of the apps support keyword blocking & filtering in their settings, such as Eternity, Connect, Mlem, Memmy and Sync
Ngl I agree. Lemmit bots aren’t providing us content. The hacker news repost bot isn’t providing us content. We need OC not reposts that link back to Reddit.
Reddit is a glorified Imgur to me now.
