Calling for donations! We’re running Lemmy.World for you to use for free, however the running costs aren’t for free… If you appreciate our services and are willing and able to help out paying the bills, please consider a donation on one of these platforms:
- https://ko-fi.com/fhfworld - Preferred
- https://liberapay.com/fhf
- https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld - (Either recurring or one-time donations)
- https://patreon.com/mastodonworld - (Recurring donations only)
- https://bunq.me/fhf - This is a Dutch bank account for those looking for SEPA / IBAN bank transfers
The most recent blog post with financial information is from September as follows:
https://blog.mastodon.world/september-2025-updates-for-the-worlds-and-call-for-donations
Oh what the heck, I can chip in a few bucks a month to support social media that isnt evil
Well, it’s getting on toward Halloween, so maybe we’ll try to be more evil ;-)
Thank you! :)
I will donate my only upvote.
Thank you <3
And to everyone else as I won’t reply to everyone so as not to spam up the thread :)
On it’s way
It’s not much but I gave €10, keep up what you do because it’s my first day and I already don’t want this place to go
I always feel self conscious sending small amounts, but then I think “maybe that’s what stops a lot of people from giving any” because an entire crowd that feels awkward not giving more than 20 actually amounts to a lot
So, don’t even sweat it! Give any amount
10€ is a perfectly fine amount. Also, welcome!
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Yes, not only is your donation appreciated, but posting about it shows others that they can. Before I was an admin, it was a thread like this with people posting that they were donating that reassured me into making a small monthly recurring donation, so comments like yours are appreciated. <3
Welcome to Lemmy!
I’ll chip in some monies. I also have a metric ton of fucks to give, any particular place to put them? Barely used, fine quality.
Quality participation with comments and/or good posts helps the community grow. Reporting rule-breaking content helps mods and admins keep the community growing as well. So monies and fucks are appreciated. er, wait, lemme rephraase that
Thank you for your most valuable service!
Reporting rule-breaking content
OMG, narc.
monies and fucks
Right here, officer. This person said “fuck” ok the Internet and memes have taught me this is NOT ok!
USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST
Y’all, everyone should donate. I was totally for real banned, and literally just unbanned myself via bribes. It turns out that if you bribe @[email protected], they’ll let you say “fuck” as many times as you want on the internet!
Seriously, try it out! Make a “donation” and then see if it worked by replying with the word fuck. I think it’s actually the law that the internet admins have to let you say “fuck” if you publicly bribe them.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. See? Totally un-fucking-banned. Pic for proof.
Too many fucks though ruins the joy of fuck. Keep fuck special.
Fuck, that worked! I donated and got unbanned! Now where is the how many fucks I have left to give meter located? I don’t want to run out of fucks and get banned again.
LOL! My intended joke was that in some places, that message would appear on the item that was banned, i.e. my joke was that I was banned.
That said, I like your reply, so I’m gonna go with it. <3
I setup a liberapay at the end of last year for a small recurring donation every 3 months ( since it was a smaller amount they had me do it quarterly instead ). If you contimue to use it regularly and can afford to throw them a cup of coffee’s donation monthly, think about signing up.
Thank you! <3
Thank you! <3
Thank you for doing a patreon! Signed up for $2 a month, its not much, but if I know me, ill never cancel it. Its so easy everybody, go sign up for a couple bucks a month!
Same. I’m a wagie and need to be careful of my spend, but this is a good set and forget.
The way a lot of people responded to a thread about struggling financially, i think there’s a lot of lemmys on here who could definitely afford to pitch in.
Small amounts add up too!
Like… a blue checkmark?
Yeah, I know, I know.
I think of it as a way to prompt others to donate. “I donated, and you can too!”, sort of thing. Like wearing an “I voted” sticker on election day.
Unless just doing a sticky once in a while does the job, I suppose.
Well my point is that it just seems that rewarding giving money seems to go against the intention of the Fediverse.
People giving money because they want the social clout/status symbol, versus people that give because they want something cool to succeed. Y’know?
Yeah, but fuck that. As long as you keep it small and near maintenance fees, it’s fine.
Too many people react to one extreme with the opposite extreme.
Reddit gold was also a fine way to support Reddit, back when it deserved more support. Before they got greedy.
Also, we had some unexpected extra costs (over 1000,–) when we had to pay taxes for the foundation (strange, for a non-profit…). I’ll see if we can get an accountant to check this, but also accountants are costly…
Ouch
Do you have any non-profit support organizations, local to where you have your accounts, that might be able to help for cheap or pro-bono?
Thank you for all the work you do!
I have now asked the accountant I also use for my business, to help out with the foundation.
I know that we look for nonprofit-help everywhere we can, but I don’t have a specific answer for you at this time, but I’ve marked this to see if we can answer you later, at least :)
Defederate from the tankie bullshit and I’ll absolutely pitch in. But until then, I’m not paying to have a bunch of kids shit all over every discussion had.
I can respect that opinion, and I will say… I have a number of people blocked. It’s easy to do.
Speaking only for us here on Lemmy.World, we try to ban people who break the Lemmy.World ToS, which include issues like bigotry, incivility, spam, things like that. Not necessarily opinions with which we might disagree or find unpleasant. I think if I allowed myself to ban anyone with whom I disagreed, I would find myself quickly de-adminned, and rightfully so - it would kill the fedverse.
There are other tools for dealing with, well, tools. Including blocking on a personal level, or having community rules in place that make sense for that community that can help create spaces that are more comfortable to be in.
So while I agree with your sentiment, understanding the roles of the instance admins vs community moderators or individual choices - that’s why I set up a monthly donation before I became an admin. Because Lemmy provides me with good content and communities.
Everyone is absolutely free to make their own choices. And this reply is not an attempt to beg you to donate.
It’s propaganda. And it should be banned for that alone. They play by the rules, they come they antagonize and they report people for losing their cool. They’re trolls.
There’s nothing good that comes from them.
Why can’t you just block the instances you don’t like on your preferred client? That’s what I do, and I don’t see comments from any user account on any instance I block. I think defederation should be reserved only for the most absolute eggregious problem instances. Instances the CP spammers were from, if you were around for that in the early days here, for example.
As long as they aren’t spamming CP and brigading to vandalize posts and stuff, I don’t think any instance should be defederated, even if I dont agree with the users there.
Like, I find Blahaj instance users generally annoying. I have never had a positive interaction I can remember with a Blahaj instance user. I can remember quite a few negative ones though. But I don’t think Blahaj should be defederated. I just blocked the instance on my client and now I don’t see any of their posts or comments (except via modlog, mod view, etc), they can still access communities here, and users here can still access communities there. Wins all around. My personal opinion shouldn’t be a reason to remove everyone elses access to an instance they might like.
I did block it. But you see…. Blocking the instance doesn’t stop the cretins from posting their bullshit all over .world. Hence… I won’t pay to support an instance that allows that trash to post their propaganda.
Don’t forget, you can block communities and users. This is a a solution to your problem. It may not be the quickest or the most effective, but it’s better than not doing anything in your own power to do so.
Oh I know. But the onus shouldn’t be on the myriad people that have asked them to defederafe from that trash. Many insurances have e already done it- .world is just too chickenshit to lose the content.
And what quality content it is.
Ok, well I mean if its blocked for you, doesn’t getting mad about it defeat the purpose of blocking it?
“I blocked my ex, but I just know they are talking to other people and that makes me mad.” I know it’s maybe not the same level of severity, but I mean, what’s the point of blocking if you don’t move on after?
I don’t think you understand how federated instances work. Maybe look into that.
5$ a month. I was just thinking about how I’d never pay for any kind of reddit anything. But this doesn’t feel all hurty in my soul. Ty for making a space that’s not hyper capitalist.
Can’t do monthly but done’ed a one off!
Will do more one day once local morale improves etc.
Thank you! Every bit helps!
If you can do a yearly donation that’s sometimes better for projects as they minimize per-payment transfer fees
Are you able to add anything between $10-$100 on Patreon?
I’ve added a $20 and $50 tier
I’m passing this question along and tracking your comment so I can let you know when I get an answer :)
