Submitted 3 weeks ago by MyCatIsDumb@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
I love the Fediverse and Lemmy. But technically, it still lags behind the big platforms in some areas. And there are many things where I believe the Fediverse will eventually be significantly better than centralized platforms, but which are still underdeveloped. Unfortunately, I can’t program myself, or at least not very well. So I’m wondering how I can best support development financially.
Did everyone just forget that the Lemmy devs are tankies?
Point me to the point in the code where this fact has come up. References to specific lines would be ideal.
The main dev is also an admin on lemmy.ml. There would probably be more instances that defederate lemmy.ml if it weren’t for that, and the way that account-level blocking is implemented isn’t really that great.
This ignores how money donated supposedly to support development of the Lemmy codebase goes instead towards moderation of their personal instance. Unless you want to donate to Nutomic specifically (which has other issues), there is no way to donate specifically to develop Lemmy code.
So ironically the answer to your question lies in the lines that are lacking, but that would have been there otherwise.
Bottom line is that it’s their code and they can do as they please. Meanwhile, I switched to PieFed. I wish you good luck with that extremely slow-paced development of Lemmy, but I am not putting any hope into it myself anymore.
Still better investment than putting your money in, say, Felon or Trump stuff.
"At least I'm not drinking literal shit!" (while drinking a glass of warm piss)
And?
And nobody should support an authoritarian piece of shit.
I'm not a fan of giving money to tankies.
I donate monthly (recurring) to:
Currently most large instances are well funded so I’d personally focus on development funding.
You can also contribute if you feel some content is missing, start a community or contribute things to an existing one. Quality is the result of care.
If you want to specifically support Lemmy financially, then you want to support the devs: join-lemmy.org/donate
An alternative is to support your instance by donating to them instead.
There you can directly donate to the Lemmy devs
To support development financially, the first best way is to donate to the devs, for which people have already posted links.
The second best alternative, in particular for the people who are butthurt about the devs having their given political position yet hypocritically continue to fund or promote things like iPhone child labor, Amazon, Walmart or US taxes, would be to financially support the maintainers of the Lemmy instance(s) you are in. Most instance have their own “donate” / “support” link somewhere. Check yours.
(another advantage to supporting the instance you are in is that you would, usually, experience sooner or larger improvements in return for your investment. Better storage or network plan for your instance = better speed or uptime for posting lolcats)
Third best way, probably, is to finance public or state-level advocacy for Lemmy and/or Fediverse general. Alas I don’t know what if any organizations exist there nor how are they taking money (and report on its usage).
If you use an 3rd party native iOS or Android app, leave them a nice review! Also star any related projects on GitHub or codeberg.
I suggest you financially support PieFed instead and the instance you are on.
Donate to Lemmy (or Piefed) development directly, then your home instance. If you’ve still got some cash burning a hole in your pocket, donating to instances that host communities you particularly care about is also something you can do
Supporting Lemmy won’t do much to help the Threadiverse thrive imho. Instead I suggest supporting PieFed, for many uh… reasons. One being that it is written in Python (which many developers are already familiar with, rather than the extremely niche Rust that even experienced C++ coders are loathe to have to learn) and thus has a ton of features already that Lemmy lacks (see https://join.piefed.social/features/), plus it’s only continuing to add still yet more, on a monthly basis even.
By comparison, Lemmy requests sit for literally years and years, while a lot of the donations, rather than going to support further code development, instead goes to support the, let’s just say “highly controversial” instance lemmy.ml.
Lemmy won’t “die”, but it’s never going to hit mainstream. Visit r/RedditAlternatives in any given post to find out why (hint: tankies, which Westerners do not like, probably bc tankie instances are full of content calling for the literal murder of Westerners as well as the actual fall of those civilizations - for some reason though these anti-Western sentiments seems to drive people who live there away? Go figure!🤪🙃).
PieFed on the other hand might just have a chance, and the dev team is super friendly and highly responsive. At least check it out.
Also, post content! More than most other things you could do, that would help a lot.
Shitting on Rust while propping up Python, whose ecosystem receives every day more and more influx of Rust-based tools and libraries is… a weird choice.
It is your choice: you could look at the set of features that PieFed has and how quickly they were developed, and you could compare that to the requests sent to Lemmy for features that have not and seem at this pace like they will never be done, and you may conclude whatever you like.
Maybe it’s not the language, maybe the PieFed devs are just simply that good while the Lemmy ones are not, is that what you are implying?
Or maybe you don’t know the feature comparison between those two software platforms - fwiw I included a link above.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Servers cost money to run.
You can try to post about lemmy on other platforms, but be aware that that carries a risk of getting banned.
Normally I’d also recommend supporting the devs, but fuck tankies. I plan on switching to piefed.
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I flipped to piefed about a month ago. I took 1 evening to open 1 tab with my lemmy subscriptions and 1 with piefed and manually transferred it all.
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 3 weeks ago
Same, I already did. Maybe the fediverse foundation would host a PieFed instance if there’s enough interest.
iatenine@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
You may be surprised how seamless the switch is, you can import your Lemmy account settings
The big drawback is a loss of mobile app selection but I’ve come to like Blorp quite a lot
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Blorp dev here. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to make your PieFed experience even better! I’m launching support for PieFeds multi communities feeds very soon. Stay tuned.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Another proud PieFedizen here. I support my server !