If Reddit back in the day had asked a few dollars for me to stick with using 3rd party apps using the API I would have. But they did the opposite, so here I am. First time actually donating to something, a measily $2 dollars a month, but hopefully a start to fund some of the free stuff I use.
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2024
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$2/mo is pretty close to what Reddit premium was back before they turned the Reddit silver meme into a real thing! Thatβs a great amount to donate. Donβt sell yourself short.
The whole idea to check the donations came from stumbling upon this post which discussed costs per user. Even $1/mo is quite a bit more than the average user cost. So $2 isn't so measly when putting it into that perspective!
The whole idea to check the donations came from stumbling upon this post which discussed costs per user.
Things should be put into perspective. The cost per user is actually the fixed monthly cost of operating an instance divided by the average number of active users.
In the discussion you linked to, there's a post on how Lemmy.ml costs $80/month + domain name to serve ~2.4k users. If we went through opex/users metric, needlessly expensive setups with low participation would be a justification to ask for more donations.
Regardless, this is a good reminder that anyone can self-host their own Lemmy instance. Some Lemmy self-host posts go as far as to claim a Lemmy instance can be run on a $5/month virtual private server from the likes of scaleway.
Ok, I'm in for $2 /month too, thanks for setting the standard!
The server sidebar has an uptime stat. Could also have a simple monthly costs covered percent stat.
I appreciate you pointing this out. Today is literally my first day on the job after 5 months, but I'll throw some cash their way after a check or two.
If you're thinking of something like $1-2/month, also consider doing a 30 dollar 1 time thing (it saves on transaction fees) and you basically just paid for 2-3 years of donations.
From what i can tell there are no transaction fees for sponsorships from personal accounts, and organizations pay 6% (or 3% if invoicing). (Source)
Is there something else I'm not seeing?
Is there something else Iβm not seeing?
Possibly payment processing fees. Some banks/payment institutions charge you for a payment.
fwiw headscale is pretty easy to self host and has minimal system requirements.
I donβt have a bank account ATM but Iβll be happy to send some ETH if the admin has an address !
Since there's only github as a donation option, there are also other admins who can be sponsored through other means e.g @recursive_recursion@programming.dev has a Libera Pay account which allows donation without giving M$ more traction.
Thanks, donated this way!
It would be nice if there was something for annynomus donations ( you need to login to github ).