Submitted 12 hours 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.
I suggest you financially support PieFed instead and the instance you are on.
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.
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.
I plan on switching to Piefed because of that.
Same, I already did. Maybe the fediverse foundation would host a PieFed instance if there’s enough interest.
Another proud PieFedizen here. I support my server !
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
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.
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.
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.
There you can directly donate to the Lemmy devs
I donate monthly (recurring) to:
Currently most large instances are well funded so I’d personally focus on development funding.
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).
Did everyone just forget that the Lemmy devs are tankies?
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)
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.
And?
And nobody should support an authoritarian piece of shit.
I'm not a fan of giving money to tankies.
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
moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.