Signed up for $5/month. I have a ton of Patreon subscriptions, mostly for podcasts but also a couple of software projects. I tried to donate to my instance to help cover hosting, but it was only PayPal (who stole my money many years ago and made it impossible to contest). I hadn’t ever considered donating to the devs, so thanks for making this post.
I was a Redditor for 14 yrs or so never paid a penny. I left because of censorship, shadow banning, bots and shills, atroturf’d voting and manipulation of content and posts from the reddit team themselves due to bribes or whatever support they get from forign entities, how they killed all 3rd party apps, and how they use their users data and abusing their mods and subs under those mods control.
Plus reddit used to be fun. I remember thinking at the end of the day, “I’ll browse reddit until I read something that makes me laugh out hard” and withing 15-20 minutes, I was laughing my ass off.
That’s not accurate and that’s a false equivalency and you know it, man.
I hate reddit and everything but reddit is still “free” last time I checked (though the users are the product.)
We’re here because reddit screwed up alternative app devs, and it also worsened the user experience for everyone.
And the “reddit payments” are there solely to enrich some board member assholes.
Donating to Lemmy instance maintainers so they recoup some of the server costs for something they pretty much consider a hobby is definitely not the same.
Just set up auto-donations to Lemmy devs and my instance admin(s). Thanks for the reminder! It ain’t much for me, but with many others doing the same it’ll make a huge difference.
I have been wondering why my maintainer doesn’t remind people to donate more often. I set up a small recurring donation, so I don’t have to remember, but I think it’d be okay to regularly remind people.
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