First up… this is not a call for donations.
Without going into the personal details as to why: I don’t have the energy to give this place the attention it needs, and I’m no longer willing to cover the majority of running costs.
I don’t have a fully fledged solution to this, and don’t have the energy to come up with one. The best I can come up with is I hand the reins over to Nath, and some sort of community funding is set up to cover costs.
If anyone knows of above board methods to establish a crowd funded piggy bank for something like this, I’m all ears.
Open Collective is pretty good, it could be used. Good on ya for passing it to Nate rather than just letting it die, but it’ll be sad to have you gone
Thank you for everything. I’m sorry I haven’t donated regularly. When a decision is made I will.
I think I’ve donated once… as enjoyers of FOSS we really should be better at paying for what we previously expected corporations to front the bill for. Thanks for all of your work.
I totally agree. Actually I think pretty much everyone agrees. It’s just a bit tricky, because it is not what most people are use to in their daily lives.
I mean, in most cases people seek out the highest quality products at the lowest prices. Lower cost is basically always what people aim for, as long as the quality is high enough. But with FOSS and other free services, you get the product for free… so that’s a win right? Zero cost. What are you paying for? It needs a totally different mindset. We need to think of ourselves as part of a community working together and sharing resources - not a bunch of independent people only making trades for our own self-interest. For that, I think transparency about what funding is needed and where it is going is very helpful.
Echoing everyone’s sentiments here. I’m happy to donate. Just give us the official place to do so? Lots of conflicting proposals in here…
I’d hate to see AZ shut down and I’m happy to setup regular donations.
There are few places left on the internet where any degree of disagreement is tolerated and overall I have found AZ and its community mods to be reasonable.
Figure out what donation platform works transparency/tax/whatever wise and I’ll send something. More direct use than getting Melbourne a hypothetical Numbat…
Thanks for providing us a little slice of internet away from the likes of Reddit and hoping all goes well for you in the future!
Keen to join on the monthly donation train once there’s a link, reckon I’ve lurked and freeloaded from FOSS long enough!
As I said 3 years ago Lodion, this is your house and you make the rules.
Those rules have been fair, generous even, and have shaped the community that has grown here.
I hope it can continue to live up to your ideals.I’d be happy to do a recurring donation. I’d like to help out as well but I don’t have the most technical background, I’d love to learn but I just need to find the time
yeah a patreon could possibly work for that, unless someone knows more of the ins than I do.
I’ll reiterate that this place has been a safe space. Much nicer than reddit, a much happier place I’d rather be. Thankyou, every ounce has been appreciated even if you think it not :)
Just tell us how we can support you.
Patreon perhaps?
I registered here as the first place when I ditched Reddit. Lemmy cured an addiction for me. I don’t really have much energy for Lemmy now either. I’m almost totally social media-less. I take this as a win.
When I get an urge I open here and I get a clean good (if quiet) feed. I appreciate that you’ve freely given me this space on your servers and if you sign off and hand everything over, all I have is good memories and all I can give is my best wishes.
Thank you.
Please if you don’t feel like being part of this anymore, know you’re not indebted to us users. If I care to move, that’s not that hard on Lemmy. Especially because the points don’t exist, a new account somewhere else is trivial even if I don’t migrate my ID because I don’t notice a message telling me it might go offline. It’s not that bad.
I’m a carer, but I can find a few dollars.
I like what’s going on here, it’s worth a few dollars
Edit: and thanks.
Thanks heaps for making this community and keeping it running for 3 years Lodion. Ill admit that I had drifted away from Lemmy recently since joining shortly after Reddit killed the 3rd party apps, but am happy I opened it just now to see this post.
Even as the irregular user I have become, I would be happy to chuck in a small amount to support the running costs of the site as its good to have this quiet and conscientious community to participate in when I feel up to engaging.
I am semi tech literate, and will hopefully be getting diagnosed with the ADHD in the near future so if that helps me organise my time better I would be happy to try and support with the operation of the site itself, as well as hopefully contributing within the community here more as my current shit dopamine seeking habit is the endless instagram doomscroll, which isn’t ideal!
Wishing you the best and I hope everything goes as well as it can in your personal life, and understand how that takes the priority!
If anyone knows of above board methods to establish a crowd funded piggy bank for something like this, I’m all ears.
For crowd funding, I’m a fan of Liberapay and fund a lot of my favourite people and projects that way.
