[Fixed] Donation platforms for Lemmy.World

subtext, 2 months ago

Is there any preference for y’all on Opencollective vs Patreon? I would us Ko-Fi but not in a place right now to do $5/month, and that seems to be the minimum.

ruud, 2 months ago

Ohh I didn’t know there was a minimum setting in Ko-Fi. I changed the minimum there to 1. Thanks!

subtext, 2 months ago

Ooo fantastic, I’ll switch over to Ko-Fi!

progettarsi, 2 months ago

what’s wrong with patreon?

subtext, 2 months ago

They said in the post that Ko-Fi is preferred due to the lower fees

Smokeless7048, 2 months ago

Thanks for running this. I donated as long as i was able to, but had to stop recently due to my personal financial situation.

DerpyPoint, 2 months ago

Are there any plans to use Liberapay? All of the donation platforms above don’t support my home currency while Liberapay does

Rooki, 2 months ago

We will look into adding the donation platform.

If there is nothing that blocks us then we will add it.

DerpyPoint, 2 months ago

Thanks!

ruud, 2 months ago

I added a Liberapay link: liberapay.com/fhf/

MacedWindow, 2 months ago

Cant donate today but will soon. Is there any info on current funding levels/cost to run/goals trying to be reached?

ruud, 2 months ago

We keep that at blog.mastodon.world(I know, I’m behind with that…)

mesamunefire, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Which one of the platforms do you all get more money? I want to donate but I know each of the services get a cut.

Crack0n7uesday, 2 months ago

As a basic principal crypto has the lowest transaction fees. I’m not a lemmy dev so idk what they prefer, but general rule is crypto is cheapest.

qaz, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I seriously doubt Bitcoin fees are less than PayPal

EDIT: I just checked and the bitcoin transfer fee over the last 3 years was about $1-2, but it has been around $10 the last 3 months. PayPal charges a $2 fee for a $30 payment. The difference is a lot less than I expected.

Oh, and Ruud is a sysadmin of the lemmy.world instance, not a Lemmy dev.

EDIT 2: Ko-fi seems to take a 0% fee on one time transactions.

Crack0n7uesday, 2 months ago

for small amounts of money, PayPal, cash app whatever is cheap to free, but if you need to send thousands of dollars and convert your currency from USD to Euro or whatever crypto is the cheapest way to do it.

ruud, 2 months ago

Ko-Fi or PayPal directly, or crypto

DelvianSeek, 2 months ago

Happy to donate a little bit!

sweaterpuppys, 2 months ago

Just donated. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

ruud, 2 months ago

Thanks!!

MCHEVA4EVA, 2 months ago

Does lemmy not get its money from the trevi fountain?

menemen, 2 months ago

Hm, we are missing the “reporting for duty” emoji.

ruud, 2 months ago

🫡 Thanks for the donation!

JJROKCZ, 2 months ago

o7 is always there, no emojis needed

Rooki, 2 months ago

o7

ruud, 2 months ago

Hmm. Why does Lemmy mess up the links…

NateNate60, 2 months ago

The Ko-Fi link seems to be broken.

ruud, 2 months ago

Yeah almost all links were broken, not sure how. I edited them, saved and they were broken again… For now it seems it’s fixed.

Serinus, 2 months ago

Reddit gold was such a great method of voluntary monetization. It’d be great if Lemmy would support something like that (although there are a ton of caveats.)

I had a $30/year subscription to Reddit for more than a decade.

mysoulishome, 2 months ago

🤨

taanegl, 2 months ago

I think Reddit gold can be benign, but let’s not exploit FOMO plz. That’s how we got loot boxes and micro payments.

How to do “Reddit gold” on Lemmy, in a non-exploitive and ethical way? That would be the rub.

Serinus, 2 months ago

The real danger isn’t on Lemmy.World, where I think the money would go where intended. The real danger is incentivizing people to spin up small instances in the hopes of collecting.

vmachiel, 2 months ago

Great point, this will happen instantly.

ruud, 2 months ago

That won’t work. I have 340k users on my servers and it just covers the running cost. So with a 100 user instance you would get peanuts.

Serinus, 2 months ago

I guess the cross server implementation would be difficult. If you buy credits on lemm.ee, and gild a lemmy.ml user, who honors it to… not show you ads?

I guess it’s mostly just a decoration thing to support the comment/post and the server. Still, which server displays which awards could get thorny.

Rooki, 2 months ago

I would say, through activity, not through paying. Then for activity they will get rewarded.

kylian0087, 2 months ago

Would any form of crypto donations be interesting as well? Personally a great fan of Monero.

ruud, 2 months ago

Our Monero address is 83tnuFN4f28jRxTBW9qGDad2U23qNE5nfeW4Pfyd85oWMW7J9gqpXi3S8FDbX5uEeCAKcGnSpS2XT5dGwYiELthg8XuDrxH

kylian0087, 2 months ago

Awesome!

trymeout, 2 months ago

Please add the crypto addresses to the site sidebar under donations. You also may want to consider accepting BTC, BCH and LTC. Glad your accepting XMR though for private donations.

madcaesar, 2 months ago

How are you covering cash into crypto without paying bonkers fees? I tried to do it via coinbase and the fees are insane. Fuck that.

kylian0087, 2 months ago

I have used localmonero.co in the past.

NateNate60, 2 months ago

You can use exchanges like Coinbase Advanced Trading and Kraken Pro to interact directly with the order book. They use the standard maker/taker model. 0.6% for takers on Coinbase Advanced Trading and 0.26% for takers on Kraken Pro. You can use “market” orders if all you want is a buy button and a sell button

madcaesar, 2 months ago

Is there tutorials for this somewhere?

slazer2au, 2 months ago

For this who are confused

The statement.
opencollective.com/…/announcement-we-are-dissolvi…

And the clarification of entities.
blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-…

ericjmorey, 2 months ago

Furthermore, a statement from Open Collective Europe: opencollective.com/…/regarding-the-announcement-t…