Don’t know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.
Also of interest, since this is a good place to plug things, other threadiverse things:
And I couldn’t find a way to donate to mbin, in lieu of that:
https://docs.joinmbin.org/contributing/
EDIT: The creator of mbin gave a link in the comments: https://melroy.org/donate.html
Oh yea I started donating all right…to PieFed (I don’t even have a PF account), .world and .cafe.
I won’t be giving a penny to them until I see some major changes in regards to .ml as so many people called for on every other version of the donation thread that wasn’t .ml
You can still donate to Lemmy without supporting ML! From https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.ml/post/29579005:
Update: For those of you who want to support Lemmy development without financing the hosting of lemmy.ml, know that the hosting is paid exclusively through OpenCollective. You can see the payment details at this link. This means donations through all other platforms (Liberapay, Ko-fi, Patreon, Crypto) are exclusively for Lemmy development, and not a single cent goes to lemmy.ml hosting.
Edit: Liberapay is the preferable donation option, as it has very low fees and is also open source.
This is a bold lie that Nutomic keeps pushing. These donations go directly to Nutomic and Dessalines. The servers are not the problem. The problem is the admins who happen to be the devs.
Do they have a link where your money doesn’t go towards moderation costs?
No. Because they’re scammers. They want you to pay them so they can ban people for being against genocide all day.
As was brought up in those threads, but it’s simply not good enough, it’s just paying for .ml with extra steps (e.g. through their pay/salary rather than directly funding hosting costs)
If it’s any consolation, the admins of .ml will likely indefinitely host .ml with or without the support of patrons funding the development of Lemmy. Your support or lack thereof will never affect its operation.
nice, its still up there.
Honestly, even if it’s 2p a month, it’ll add up and ensure the longevity of the service at the heart of what we all use daily.
I use Lemmy daily, the least I can do is throw a bit of cash at the Devs!
Interesting. feddit.org also saw a sudden peak in new users registering in the same time period.
… what does it mean‽‽‽‽
Saddam Hussein
Can’t slip a Saddam past us that easily!
Dev posted few weeks ago about donations being a little short and having lowered making it more difficult to support development. A lot of people then started to donate or increase their financial support.
Edit : for reference https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005
I’m Melroy, mbin creator. You can donate via https://melroy.org/donate.html for now.
Also you didn’t link the correct project url. That is another project called mbin. This is our public site instead: https://joinmbin.org/
Gross, their pathetic spam worked
Ummm if you don’t think this is good news you’re definitely on the wrong platform.
Lemmy devs are awesome, Lemmy is great, and I’m happy to contribute a small donation.Lemmy devs are awesome
Lol, absolutely not
Lemmy is great
That I can actually agree on
Lol, absolutely not
care to elaborate?
They openly allow calls for the death of all americans while banning anyone who critizises the people calling for genocide.
Here I talk about getting banned from ML https://lemmy.world/post/20389892
i said i dont like hamas and they called me faschist and banned me…
Nutomic himself has quite a history with real shitty takes and horrible stances. Including transphobia Etc.
Then there is said flagship instance. It’s run as a leninist Vanguard fiefdom and Echo chamber. Not a development hub. Its lemmy.ml and not lemmy.org for a reason. Much of the most egregious moderation not being done by moderators but administrators. All directly under and at nutomic’s discression. Which people are well within their right to object to. Especially being told their donations must go towards enabling it.
There are a ton of devs out there with shitty politics. But it’s most of them are smart/mature enough to keep them separate.
So this has nothing to do with reality, you just don’t like the they don’t share your opinions.
Your projecting. I literally said in the donation thread that I don’t care if they run their own political server in their own free time with their own resources. It doesn’t matter whether or not I agree with it. What matters is that they want to tell us that we must contribute to their hobby and political crusade. They can make all the poor life choices they want. They just can’t include me or anyone else in it.
This reminded me that I wanted to support. Just did a yearly payment. Thanks for the amazing work guys! I can’t believe a just a few people can maintain such an amazing ecosystem. One day people will understand that, in 48 hours, we could destroy the entire gafam system and replace it with a fair alternative: the Fediverse and FLOSS.
They could probably get more people if they didn’t promote Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and advocate against trans rights.
I mean, why are you here if that’s what you believe? Lemmy is much more than .ml
They posted asking for people to stand up for them. Dirty communists like myself (okay, and others) stood up and pushed that message everywhere we could. Because you have to want freedom and democracy. It does not come for free.
That joke was actually pretty funny. But what were those other posts mate? Show a little respect to the people giving you the opportunity to post here at all.
