General Discussion

12071 readers

73 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy.World General!

This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.

🪆 About Lemmy World

🧭 Finding Communities

Feel free to ask here or over in: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca!

Also keep an eye on:

For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!

💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:

!actual_discussion@lemmy.ca - Note this is for more serious discussions.
!casualconversation@lemm.ee - The opposite of the above, for more laidback chat!
!letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
!movies@lemm.ee - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world - Want to talk politics apart from political news? Here's a community for that!

Rules

Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.

0. See: Rules for Users.

No bigotry: including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
Posts concerning other instances' activity/decisions are better suited to !fediverse@lemmy.world or !lemmydrama@lemmy.world communities.
No Ads/Spamming.
No NSFW content.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Jessica@lemmy.world

ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

fubo@lemmy.world

How do people feel about donating to the server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by trouser_mouse@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

39 comments fedilink hide all child comments

How do people feel about donating to keep things running smoothly and making sure there are adequate resources and compensation for those involved in running .world instance?

I'm curious as I think this kind of rapid growth will be the first time the model is really being tested - as in, large rapid growth in users and activity resulting in sudden higher running costs.

I feel transparent engagement would be good to understand what the current costs are, how that scales and how people involved in keeping things running are fairly compensated for their time and effort.

Also having an issue tracker, roapmap etc public and real engagement let people see who and what they are investing in.

It's an awesome job to see the server still standing after such a huge influx!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kinda feel like know only do the instances (like lemmy.world) need to get some decent funding, but also the devs.

The instances need to pay for hardware or hosting, plus maybe admin work (obviously people will do it for love but cash is nice too), but as a fairly fledgling platform, there's also going to be some serious dev work needed to fix bugs, close exploits, improve efficiencies, and add features. Even the best host can be dead in the water if the underlying software has an unfixed exploit or lacks the features needed to maintain/optimize it. It's one of the reasons people flocked to 3rd-party Reddit clients, after all (because Reddit themselves couldn't be arsed to build up the tools themselves).