Between Lemmy.world desperately needing new mod tools, Lemmy.ee disabling image uploads, and the two main Lemmy.ml devs working on Lemmy for less than minimum wage, I want to urge and remind everyone to please Donate!
The Lemmy devs have refused advertisements, refused collaboration with Meta, and focused all of their efforts (and then more) to support the wave of users who left Reddit. The Lemmy devs did this, as they let the work owed to their sponsor take the back seat, to give everyone here today reading this message the best experience possible.
Lemmy is already at 1% the size of Reddit, but only has 2 full time employees. Not only do they deserve more for the gruelling hours they’ve put in, but so does everyone else who’s contributed too.
https://join-lemmy.org/support
Here’s information from the AMA recently about lemmy dev salaries:
Unfortunately the user donations are just barely enough to pay our salaries, by my calculations the income from Liberapay, Patreon and Open Collective is around 4000 USD per month. Luckily we still have some NLnet funding left, and should be able to work on those milestones now that things have calmed down. I hope the user donations will increase so that they can pay us proper salaries. Maybe even hire additional people, but that seems very optimistic now. It would also be good if we could find other funding sources besides NLnet, as its not clear if they will fund us another year.
I don’t know where they’re based, but if they’re here in the US, that amount of donations would cover about half of one dev ($4k * 12 = $48k; a low developer salary in the US is ~$100k), meaning we need about 4x the donations just to fund development efforts. That is, if we want to retain two full-time developers instead of having it change into a traditional open source project with mostly community contributions.
Just some data to back up that point. I don’t know how much the current developers would consider sufficient to stay with the project longer term.
Lemmy devs expressed in an AMA that Liberapay is the preferred method of donation.
As soon as lemmy blocks REDDIT from being linked from this site.
Block that POS reddit site from being linked on Lemmy, it’s always linked on Lemmy, it’s like Lemmy is a fucking reddit side-site.
In your settings you can hide posts from bots
Or just block the lemmit bot like someone else said
So you have no idea, got it.
Your PFP is literally a reddit avatar
Lemmy is a link aggregation site. The entire purpose is to link to other sites.
Lemmy is a link aggregation site. The entire purpose is to link to other sites.
Lemmy was created because of reddit fucking BS, and there is no reason to allow reddit URL to appear on this site.
Lemmy is years old. It wasn’t created when you decided to join. Lmao
Lemmy was created because of reddit fucking BS
Lol, no.
No
I don’t really feel motivated since Lemmy is centralized now on Lemmy.world. It would have been great with a decentralized network, but sadly we didn’t get there.
The value of Lemmy for me is in its decentralized nature. Otherwise we may as well use reddit or some other centralized corp service.
With almost all users, communities and links going to Lemmy.world… Let’s just say I don’t want to pay for another centralized network.
The Lemmy software itself is decentralized though, and if the software gets better we all benefit from it.
I feel like Lemmy.world will benefit, not so much everyone else.
If donating directly to the two main Lemmy developers, then every instance benefits lol
In the way of getting better mod tools, sure.
