I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!

  • Leraje@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I absolutely agree, whilst I do monthly donate to .world, I donate more to Lemmy devs at the moment as it 's at a crucial stage of development and financial support is imperative right now. I just don’t think NLnet are set up to offer that sort of grant system.

    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I agree.

      I’m worried actually about this. Donations doesn’t really work most of the time, its not a fixed income and won’t provide stability for the devs. :/

      Imagine if this turns into some kind of open source where random people work on it sometimes. Will be buggy and slow development and lack direction. It may even stall completely.

      • Leraje@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Well, I’m subbed on .world so it’s only fair I pay my way on this instance, irregardless of it’s size, the admins put in a lot of work after all. But, yeah, without the Lemmy devs, no instance has actual software to run so funding them has to be the priority, at least right now.

        • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The admin there are awesome, they are working all the time while under attack. But it’s bad for Lemmy to be so centralized. I think they should have closed registrations but they clearly have a desire to get all users there.

          • Leraje@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Couldn’t say, but I think when Lemmy rolls out account migration features (like Mastodon/Firefish/Misskey etc) we’ll probably see a fairly large amount of people move elsewhere.

            Lemmy’s at an odd stage of development right now, kinda federates, kinda doesn’t. As it matures, so will its userbase and I think any potential centralisation issues will take care of themselves. At the moment, users have to physically move (as I have twice already to help decentralisation only to see the place I moved to become very popular lol).

            • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I’m sceptical they will move away if things work fine on Lemmy.world. This is similar to having default settings in software. Most users never change them.

              • Leraje@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Maybe, yeah. I could be just being unrealistically optimistic but I do think Lemmy has a higher degree of the sort of people who don’t see changing the default settings as a major issue (as oppose to reddit for example).