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Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks! (lemmy.abnormalbeings.space)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Don't know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.

https://join-lemmy.org/donate

https://liberapay.com/Lemmy

Also of interest, since this is a good place to plug things, other threadiverse things:

https://liberapay.com/PieFed/

And I couldn't find a way to donate to mbin, in lieu of that:

https://docs.joinmbin.org/contributing/

EDIT: The creator of mbin gave a link in the comments: https://melroy.org/donate.html

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

nice, its still up there.

[–] [email protected] 386 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

[–] [email protected] 164 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I really thought this was an elaborate Saddam hiding meme

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s what he thought too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Yeep , same ... came here to post the pic but someone beat me to it lol

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

… what does it mean‽‽‽‽

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Give it the body of Elon Musk and it fits fertectly.

Is this the solution of the post?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Great, now I won't be able to unsee that ever again!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

I came here to say this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

This one still has the head!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What is this? I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Compare the shape of the graph to the shape of the graphic which represented Saddam Hussein. They're vaguely similar.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

*near perfect 8-bit representation

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 2 weeks ago

Can’t slip a Saddam past us that easily!

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Saddam Hussein

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

The fact that that was my first thought is the reason I will be touching grass for the remainder of the day.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

God damn it now I cant unsee it

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Dev posted few weeks ago about donations being a little short and having lowered making it more difficult to support development. A lot of people then started to donate or increase their financial support.

Edit : for reference https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, that was right at the time where I was having peak personal stress/health issues and only did the bare minimum admin work on Lemmy and my other platforms, no wonder I missed it. Glad to see people actually responded to the call to action, though!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope you are doing better OP!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you!

[–] avidamoeba 70 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I see Saddam Hussein.

Also, we're doing our part. They're still halfway from their nodest goal though.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm Melroy, mbin creator. You can donate via https://melroy.org/donate.html for now.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also you didn't link the correct project url. That is another project called mbin. This is our public site instead: https://joinmbin.org/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whoops, corrected now. I was already surprised I had gotten a result not hosted on joinmbin.org - but just assumed maybe the docs were hosted somewhere else for some reason. Should have taken the extra minutes to check what exactly I was linking there.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Oh yea I started donating all right...to PieFed (I don't even have a PF account), .world and .cafe.

I won't be giving a penny to them until I see some major changes in regards to .ml as so many people called for on every other version of the donation thread that wasn't .ml

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You can still donate to Lemmy without supporting ML! From https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.ml/post/29579005:

Update: For those of you who want to support Lemmy development without financing the hosting of lemmy.ml, know that the hosting is paid exclusively through OpenCollective. You can see the payment details at this link. This means donations through all other platforms (Liberapay, Ko-fi, Patreon, Crypto) are exclusively for Lemmy development, and not a single cent goes to lemmy.ml hosting.

Edit: Liberapay is the preferable donation option, as it has very low fees and is also open source.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As was brought up in those threads, but it's simply not good enough, it's just paying for .ml with extra steps (e.g. through their pay/salary rather than directly funding hosting costs)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a bold lie that Nutomic keeps pushing. These donations go directly to Nutomic and Dessalines. The servers are not the problem. The problem is the admins who happen to be the devs.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

They posted asking for people to stand up for them. Dirty communists like myself (okay, and others) stood up and pushed that message everywhere we could. Because you have to want freedom and democracy. It does not come for free.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They posted asking for people to stand up for them.

Ah, that makes sense - I missed that, but have been happily giving them a bit of money for years now. I don't have a lot to spare, but every little bit helps with crowdfunded stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Same here. I dont have a lot atm but I try to give what I can and also help out with work.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

This reminded me that I wanted to support. Just did a yearly payment. Thanks for the amazing work guys! I can't believe a just a few people can maintain such an amazing ecosystem. One day people will understand that, in 48 hours, we could destroy the entire gafam system and replace it with a fair alternative: the Fediverse and FLOSS.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, even if it's 2p a month, it'll add up and ensure the longevity of the service at the heart of what we all use daily.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I use Lemmy daily, the least I can do is throw a bit of cash at the Devs!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Interesting. feddit.org also saw a sudden peak in new users registering in the same time period.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Intended to do it long time ago, finally committed!

I have spent way too much time on lemmy this past two years, it is worth the money.

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