and then donate to the instance’s admins because there are no VC’s here … yet.

The point of lemmy (as far as I understand) is that there will not be a central corpo entity controlling and enshittifiying it as a whole, if that does happen to the particular instance your account or community is, you have the freedom to jump to another one, and continue your life.

On the other hand if you enjoy lemmy you could show support/donate, either to the devs, a particular instance admins, or even a particular community moderators