There’s some unrest because the Open Collective Foundation is stopping.
Don’t worry, we use Open Collective Europe as a donations platform, they’re going nowhere.
We’ve added some donation platforms, so if you would like to support us running our .world servers, you can do so here:
And for those wanting to donate crypto:
- Monero address:
83tnuFN4f28jRxTBW9qGDad2U23qNE5nfeW4Pfyd85oWMW7J9gqpXi3S8FDbX5uEeCAKcGnSpS2XT5dGwYiELthg8XuDrxH - Cardano address:
addr1v9qv6xvfwcx9ny56uag4umu6238sw2e7ff2kcxl3qe7p9esayjxgu
Thank you!
[Edit] Some of the links were broken, they should now all work! [Edit 20240314: Added Liberapay]
I think Reddit gold can be benign, but let’s not exploit FOMO plz. That’s how we got loot boxes and micro payments.
How to do “Reddit gold” on Lemmy, in a non-exploitive and ethical way? That would be the rub.
The real danger isn’t on Lemmy.World, where I think the money would go where intended. The real danger is incentivizing people to spin up small instances in the hopes of collecting.
That won’t work. I have 340k users on my servers and it just covers the running cost. So with a 100 user instance you would get peanuts.
I guess the cross server implementation would be difficult. If you buy credits on lemm.ee, and gild a lemmy.ml user, who honors it to… not show you ads?
I guess it’s mostly just a decoration thing to support the comment/post and the server. Still, which server displays which awards could get thorny.
Great point, this will happen instantly.
I would say, through activity, not through paying. Then for activity they will get rewarded.