I am sorry for being poor
E: I have donated 2 euro
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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I've setup a monthly contribution on GH. Only 10AUD/month sorry but it is sustainable for me.
I use Linux, Docker, etc, professionally all day every day and can lend at least few hours a month to technical help if you want. Also happy to moderate some communities if they are lacking (I love power trips /s). I don't use any social media outside of Lemmy (Abandoned Reddit completely, and have no interest in Facebook, Twitter, etc).
Thanks for the hard work everyone.
Unfortunately I just had emergency gallbladder surgery after spending my entire summer out of work and thinking I was dying. I have nothing to give right now.
Is the situation changing for you since the post?
Yes! I think we might even have 500 to 1000 EUR more than we spend this month, so we can save that for next months. A lot of these are one-time donations, so I'll have to see how much we'll have next month, I'll keep you updated on the blog.
When I get paid I really want to support but I've been jobless for a while. I hope .world gets the resources it needs!
the ai thing doesnt work for me since the update. Help?
There is no "AI thing" here
the story writer no longer woks
There is no story writer neither, this is a social media platform
Proposal: add custom animations in posts, let people pay for it. EDIT: like, dumb silly dancing frogs flying around the screen when opening some thread
I'm not sure about silly frogs, but I think showing something like a supporter icon or something could help? I'll try making a quick PoC.
Edit: I wrote something that takes the members of OpenCollective, gets their Fediverse username and then, displays it in the frontend
Edit 2: GitHub for HTTP server serving usernames https://github.com/QazCetelic/supporter-shoutout, patch for frontend not included
Develop it yourself, the instance hosts are trying to pay to run the servers not edit the codebase. If anything, they're probably looking to jump ship off the Lemmy platform over to https://piefed.world/ now that it's up and running.
Please no... At least have a switch to turn it off or something... animations moving in and around the UI are very distracting for some neurodivergent folks, myself included.
If I wasn't trying to save every dollar I had to afford food, I'd shoot it all your way. Especially with all the posting I've done here and hosting I've taken up. Might not be able to do anything myself but I've got some friends who probably can and who might owe me a favor. Sandblasting this across my friendslist.
I get the feeling.
I put in 10β¬ for you, now you don't have to feel bad :)
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Iβm trying to understand who (and where) to donate to here.
The blog post talks about various costs for the Worlds communities - the highest of which is server costs, and one line item is for βMonthly contribution to the FHFβ. Then below, the donation links say βAs a reminder, you can donate to FHF hereβ. So are those links for donating only to FHF? The Patreon link goes to βMastodon.world (Fedihosting Foundation)β.
Some clarity here would be helpful so itβs easy for folks to understand who needs donations and where they can help with that.
The FHF is the foundation owning all instances (https://fedihosting.foundation/hosted/). So the costs are for running all the .world instances. The contribution to FHF is the costs for running the non-profit foundation itself.
The Patreon was setup when mastodon.world was the only instance... haven't renamed it yet.
The spamming troll made me realize, we don't have any sort of posting limits? Limiting contributions to something humanly possible, like say, one every thirty seconds, would help cut down on that stuff. Maybe could base it on IP address, so multiple accounts couldn't be used to partially get around it?
Most people would never even realize the limit is there.
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I've started evaluate all free (as in freedom) services to match my entertainment subscriptions (I.e. netflix) and this ended up being avg 5$/mo min wage for all free services that I use which is very reasonable expense. All things don't even add up to 100$/mo in my case and the value much outweighs that!
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