How do I donate to everyone working on Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by mookulator@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Hello Lemmings!

I understand that the developers of this wonderful world are living on donations right now. Communities that pay for themselves are nicer places!

I found the donate link here (https://join-lemmy.org/donate), but that seems to go to just one developer. I would like to donate to everyone, including the creators of Lemmy as a whole, and the creators of Lemmy.World.

How do I do that?

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[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 30 points 1 year ago

So, that one developer is the main developer of Lemmy, and you may be surprised to find out there are only two of them. Lemmy is open source and takes contributions from others, but its development is driven by two full time devs.

If you want to donate to development, that's how to do it. If you want to donate to a specific instance to keep it online, then follow any donation instructions in your instance's sidebar.

[-] mookulator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Wow two developers! How do I support the other person?

[-] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 12 points 1 year ago

Dessallines owns the account, but he makes transfers to Nutomic. You can see this happening on Liberapay

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

You donate via the link you provided.

[-] iaamp@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Great. There seem to be two ways to donate, Patreon and OpenCollective. Is one better than the other for the devs regarding fees? Afaik Patreon claims a small fee, not sure about OpenCollective.

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

The devs prefer Liberapay or OpenCollective due to their FOSS nature, but ultimately the choice is up to you. I use Liberapay, and unfortunately there are fees there, too.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 year ago

You can donate to the devs or the instances host.

There's no way to donate to everyone all at once.

[-] mookulator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

How do the coworkers of the instance host get paid?

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

The way I've seen it be done is that an instance creates and open collective or ko fi fund. Then people donate into that and then the instance admins can use the money in that fund to cover hosting costs, upgrades, time spent on issues etc.

[-] Artemis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the post. I’ve bought some coffees for the Lemmy.world admin and Memmy dev, but didn’t think to track down the Lemmy dev. Signed up for the Patreon!