Reddit migrator here (shocking, I know)

Just wondering because I found out about all this yesterday and just realized the ammount of independent servers, but no sign of any ads or sponsors. So… is it all based on donations?

Also don’t just lurk, if you know you should answer because lemmy only counts users who posted or commented as active users.

  • Vincent St. PierreEnglish
    47·
    2 years ago

    I am a proud monthly donor. My couple of bucks I send Ruud and the admin team every month helps make this corner of the internet a reality.

    So, that’s how it’s funded.

    If you’re able, please consider sending in a donation. You can do so at Open Collective or Patreon.

    • Fleeing_snail@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      I didn’t know you could support lemmy via patreon. Thanks for the info! I’m going to start donating right now!

      • Antik 👾English
        7·
        2 years ago

        Just a heads up. The link he posted is to support the lemmy.world instance not the Lemmy developers. I’m a co-admin at lemmy.world so ofcourse thankful if you decide to donate but I see your account is on another instance and want to avoid confusion. If you’re looking to support the developers go to https://join-lemmy.org/ and check one of the 3 donation links below. Thank you for your support, where-ever you choose to donate :)

    • DrunemetonEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

      Help out a sprout?

      Both those links go to Mastodon not Lemmy. Am I right in assuming that your account Is on an instance that hosts both? Probably federating with M before feasting with L next?

        • PhilEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          You’ll also notice that donations are going down every month. That’s to be expected, number of active users has also gone down, until end of may, when it stabilized. We expext donations to stabilize as well, and if they won’t we’ll post a message asking for people to donate if they can/want

          If only they knew…

      • nymwit@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        Did you figure it out? Fellow sprout here. Those links go to funding sites for Mastodon.world, which also runs Lemmy.world. It’s one place for both (and potentially other .world instances).