Hello Lemmings!

I understand that the developers of this wonderful world are living on donations right now. Communities that pay for themselves are nicer places!

I found the donate link here (https://join-lemmy.org/donate), but that seems to go to just one developer. I would like to donate to everyone, including the creators of Lemmy as a whole, and the creators of Lemmy.World.

How do I do that?

  • frozenEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    So, that one developer is the main developer of Lemmy, and you may be surprised to find out there are only two of them. Lemmy is open source and takes contributions from others, but its development is driven by two full time devs.

    If you want to donate to development, that’s how to do it. If you want to donate to a specific instance to keep it online, then follow any donation instructions in your instance’s sidebar.

    • @iaampEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Great. There seem to be two ways to donate, Patreon and OpenCollective. Is one better than the other for the devs regarding fees? Afaik Patreon claims a small fee, not sure about OpenCollective.

      • frozenEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        The devs prefer Liberapay or OpenCollective due to their FOSS nature, but ultimately the choice is up to you. I use Liberapay, and unfortunately there are fees there, too.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•1 year ago

        Dessallines owns the account, but he makes transfers to Nutomic. You can see this happening on Liberapay

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    Thanks for the post. I’ve bought some coffees for the Lemmy.world admin and Memmy dev, but didn’t think to track down the Lemmy dev. Signed up for the Patreon!

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    You can donate to the devs or the instances host.

    There’s no way to donate to everyone all at once.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 year ago

        The way I’ve seen it be done is that an instance creates and open collective or ko fi fund. Then people donate into that and then the instance admins can use the money in that fund to cover hosting costs, upgrades, time spent on issues etc.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    You can just go to the main domains (e.g Lemmy.world) and there would the donate links on the sidebar.