• Dran@lemmy.world
    85·
    2 days ago

    I’d love to understand the costs associated with a project like this. Do you have a breakdown anywhere of where money goes each month?

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
        42·
        1 day ago

        Goddamn, I thought it was cheaper! I donate already to my instance and dev but I’ll throw what I can your way too.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 day ago

        We keep a blog but it’s way overdue…

        Hugely understandable. It’s so much rougher than people think for a small project to maintain a consistent blog. Thank you for the posts you do have!

          • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            I was figuring someone would ask about this eventually, and I’d say: yeah. I work on Wikipedia with hundreds of thousands of active editors, millions of articles, some ungodly readership, a foundation behind us, a considerable hand in every commercial LLM on Earth, and an SEO that would make The North Face say “Yeah, I’ll perform meticulous, reputation-damaging sabotage for that.”

            Likewise, I’ve worked for years on PCSX2, with a team of (I haven’t counted, but) 25 or so. I don’t remember because I never nosed into it, but I think we make less than Fedihosting (at €1300/mo right now for Fedihosting, that’s €15,600/year). Despite currently being one of the most well-regarded emulators out there, everyone knows everyone, fuck knows nobody is turning a profit compared to the timesink, everyone is in it because they want to be there and enjoy the company and the work, and 99.9% of people on fhe street will give you a quizzical look if you point to that as a hobby – born out of not even knowing what the fuck that is.

            I don’t know the cost breakdown of what Fedihosting spends on servers, but I do know that there’s probably not a lot of that €15,600 gross per year – if any – left over for the people (at least several; never checked) doing the hours of thankless, delicate work when your whole thing is hosting multiple social media platforms. Beyond that, the Fediverse is pretty small and certainly brings minimal glory. Usually at least some people know what PCSX2 is because they’ve used it. On the other hand, you need to be a very specific type to know what a “Lemmy.World” is (I wish that weren’t the case).

            • diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 day ago

              I just meant like I thought this was the main lemmy project or something or is this just the most popular/default instance? I thought these guys built the whole lemmy ecosystem

                • Obinice@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  22 hours ago

                  Is that not the instance everyone hates because of their toxic politics, or something? Does that also reflect the Lemmy creators?

                  I don’t follow the discourse myself, I just keep seeing people make derogatory references to it here and there.

              • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                22 hours ago

                This became the most popular instance bc Lemmy’s devs run their own lemmy.ml instance with a strong tankie moderation angle, and many people don’t like that.

        • Ruud@lemmy.worldM
          2·
          1 day ago

          Yes I will put the link in the post later today. I am not home and am not logged in to lwadmin on the phone.

      • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        It seems like that page might not be taking into account income from other platforms though; it estimates the annual budget as being €4,000, despite the official monthly budget (as listed on their Mastodon blog as of last September) being €1,700.

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 day ago

      I also need to be reminded now and then,

      Happy to pitch a tenner when reminded, you guys and Wikipedia.

      • Don't forget to stay hydrated.🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 day ago

        I recommend writing a log of donations. Then you can look at where you donated, when and how much, and remind yourself of where you want to send money again.

        Now, I am pretty lazy. So it’s just my_donations.txt, open with Vim and whip out that calculator. Should probably be a spreadsheet instead. I don’t know if Calc let’s me do math based on key (place of donation).
        I guess I could have separate columns per key (to maintain log nature), then do subtotal per key to specific cells, then grand total from those cells.
        Still begs the question of how I would do that per year.
        Sperate columns each year?
        Just make range selection at the end of year?
        To be honest, I never actually used any spreadsheet software. I suppose there might be some logic, if so, there sure would be a way to check the date column on same row as amount.

        But anyway, Vim + calculator. 👍

        • vatlark@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          I use libre Calc for my donations.

          If you want to sum based on a criteria you can use sumif().

          I use it to track what types of donations I make (deductible, political, etc)

    • Artwork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      It’s not just superior but mostly… humane… and still much more trusted to invest your finite life time into, I believe…
      There’s love, empathy, and reason I feel…

      ...not just "shadow banned" as on Reddit...

      Though, I was already banned for utterly unexpected reasons at !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone and !privacy@lemmy.ml , and though these are still not Lemmy.World, there were at least appreciated reasons stated (in the Modlog), and not just “shadow banned” as on Reddit for utterly unknown reasons with no official responses with money sent into their Vault and Awards I do regret know being shadow-banned myself…
      No one cares who you are there and how much you’ve done for tens of years; it’s an empty void and sorrow…
      Regardless…

      Thank you, heartfelt, dear Lemmy and PieFed Developers, Artists, Community… for the ineffably magnificent Marvel… Art you do…
      Please stay safe, and I wish you success, prosperity, achievements to treasure, reach new horizons, stability… and peace…

  • M137@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 day ago

    Have stopped a subscription I don’t have a use for anymore so I’ll jump on your ko-fi at the end of this month as the replacement for that. Absolutely deserved, hope you get all that’s needed! (Does ko-fi have reoccurring payments? Haven’t used it before, and I’d like to have an automatic monthly donation)

  • in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.socialEnglish
    25·
    2 days ago

    Can’t donate money but are you still looking for

    – Technical / infra people , for helping run all the instances and plan for the future. (We use linux/docker/terraform/ansible, so either you need to know about them, or want to learn about them).

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    Just gave a €30 dono. I get way more value out of my Lemmy account than that. Thanks for all you do to provide an alternative to big tech

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldM
      2·
      1 day ago

      Only Ada at the moment addr1qyacucygjuc8lnnk76vxax6wejghhlvkq4t6cs0mxx49drwxef63ye5wqjeu2pd0afj8ytz2ty24rgzq96mlfyhdxdwq9xr45u