How do people feel about donating to keep things running smoothly and making sure there are adequate resources and compensation for those involved in running .world instance?
I’m curious as I think this kind of rapid growth will be the first time the model is really being tested - as in, large rapid growth in users and activity resulting in sudden higher running costs.
I feel transparent engagement would be good to understand what the current costs are, how that scales and how people involved in keeping things running are fairly compensated for their time and effort.
Also having an issue tracker, roapmap etc public and real engagement let people see who and what they are investing in.
It’s an awesome job to see the server still standing after such a huge influx!
I already set a recurring donation, see the opencollective link that lemmy.world put on the sidebar of the main feed (you can also find the details about the expenses there). Just consider it like paying for Reddit Premium, except here the money goes directly into server expenses instead of being burnt in nonsense like NFTs or paying devs to add more trackers in the official app.