I’m engaging with dozens of servers and hundreds of creators on lemmy, and I’d like to give back to more of them. I built a tool a few years ago called subless(subless.com) which aimed to do something similar for the non-federated internet, and I’d like to make something for the Fediverse too.

Do you think donations should be distributed like content?

I threw together a survey that would really help me understand how y’all are thinking about donations. I’d really appreciate it if anyone could fill it out.

Thanks!

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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    1 year ago

    First of all, I think the fediverse, the good one in the future, is made of lots lots and lots of small instances.

    Why?

    Because FB, Reddit etc “brought” all the forums, homemade sites etc that existed before together in one place, regrouped them by helping everybody, and then when having the control, enshittifying it all to monetize it…

    So for me, in the long run, sites should probably be about one thing, not like “everything”.

    That said, most small specialized sites could probably run well on a shoestring budget or almost for free (I put up an old PC with a lemmy instance and except the time it’s just the electric bill I’ll pay when I don’t need heating, for example).

    So should you give money to the “big” sites? Really, I don’t know, probably today yes to have the “Lemmyspace” running. To a small community if needed, yeah!

    I think it’s a complex question without a good simple answer.