I’m putting in a dollar a week for the second year now and i plan on keeping it up. If only 1500 people did what I do, we’re completely fine.

If you host an instance, please give a dollar a week. If you spend more than 10 hrs on lemmy per week, please give a dollar. Its not that hard. Think what stuff you pay more for and spend less time o, have less fun on and learn less from.

I also think that big instances should be funneling a portion of their donations to the devs. I send more than I get, which is my choice.

Democracy requires participation.

Donated what I could on a hard month (something something insurance company something something half of my salary), but with heart. If the fundraiser persist, I’ll be glad to donate more next month!

Donated , kudos for XMR option

.world and .ee must be benefitting financially from your work; are they helping at all?

I’ve kicked over a few hundred dollars over the past 2 years but cancelled my recurring. I’ll reenable it. Thanks for doing this.

Thanks for the work that you are doing.

Signed up on Patreon.

Sent something on your ETH address, check it on mainnet :))), and fiat on Ko-Fi too :))

To those who don’t want to give because of the devs’ political views, I’d like to say this goes into improving the Lemmy software our communities here are based on, not making some political podium for the devs in particular.

There’s a lot of rubbish on Lemmy… because it’s the internet. Like the Great Garbage Patch of the Pacific, it collects; but I still like the Ocean. Some people look down particularly on .ml, but personally I think this is unjustified.

In fact, before joining Lemmy I heard some rumour of the controversy and went looking. I certainly disagree strongly with certain things I found, but my impression was of Dessalines and Nutomic treating the Internet as a forum for respectful debate and this Lemmy as a technology project not a personal political force - as many see Reddit as becoming. Well, that was my impression, so I was happy to join, and I’ve not been disappointed.

On this Lemmy software we have many communities, some which vehemently hate each other, but we’re all supported by this foundational software. If it’s too awful to you, you could of course use a different platform, and still federate with the Lemmy communities you love! But we’re still here.

Because, after all, in any real community there are people you don’t get on with, and part of life is about learning what it means to love each other and live together even so. And that goes for every software project too - somewhere, hiding in the dark recesses, is something quite unpalatable intrinsically linked in. If your ideology says you can’t use anything built with such problems, you’d better start building everything yourself.

So, you don’t have to support Lemmy. Even if you use it. You don’t have to agree with my take on it. But I’d like to encourage most of you to consider supporting Dessaline and Nutomic to continue this development work, and not just the bare minimum they need - let it overflow with blessing, since we have received such blessing from them!

…Or you can all send me angry replies for ranting too long on the Internet about something you disagree with ;-)

Sent a bit. Thank you for Lemmy

Thanks for the reminder, sometimes I forget to support these important pieces of software.

I feel like us old people need to give a little extra to pay for the next generation of young tinkerers so things can continue to be free

Been donating monthly for a while now!

If I didn’t respond to anyone below, thank you. It means a lot, and makes the years of work I’ve spent on lemmy feel worthwhile and important.

I have a dollar or two to spare

Just donated! Best of lucks.