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!

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    61 year ago

    Hah yeah I understand. But it’s also where I’m not agreeing with you on a more “political” level.

    I see the lemmyverse (or basically the internet, I’m old) as a way of sharing information, not as a way of earning money.

    For me you’d donate to make a sub, a community or an instance staying alive, not for ‘content creation’. You’re helping a space where people exchange whatever they do. I’m maybe wrong here but I feel that if content creators will earn money, it’s the open bar for publicity, doom scrolling algorithms and everything else we’ve seen the last ten years.

    I love some of the “free” stuff on the internet, like I re-read Girl Genius and I’ll probably buy more stuff from them because they are so awesome (science & romance!).

    So I’m up for debate ofc.

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      31 year ago

      If we want to leave ad tracking hell, we need to be willing to put up some expenses or reimagine Federation to be at the user level instead of the instance level.

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        21 year ago

        I guess it depends on what you want?

        Is it some sort of ‘get together and share stuff’ thing or a ‘earn a living from content creation’ ?

        I mean you can spin up a small instance for 10€ a month if it’s the former…

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          21 year ago

          One of the big problems now is the amount of space needed to host media. It’s gonna be a limiting factor quick.

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            11 year ago

            Weell yeah maybe. But I just got myself a spare 3TB drive for like 30€ so I can backup my Lemmy who’s living on a 4TB drive. Will it be enough? For some time I sure do think so.